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         The Fifth International Conference on Advanced Collaborative Networks, Systems and Applications 
             COLLA 2015 
           October 11 - 16, 2015 - St. Julians, Malta   | 
       
     
     
     
     COLLA Advisory Committee
     Lasse Berntzen, Vestfold University College - Tønsberg, Norway 
       Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virgina Military Institute/Virginia Tech, USA 
       Howard Spoelstra, Open University in the Netherlands, Netherlands 
       Pascal Salembier, University of Technology of Troyes, France 
       Atsuo Hazeyama, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan
       
       Henric Johnson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden 
       Christophe Thovex, University of Nantes, France 
       Alessandro Campi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 
       Anna Kocurova, University of West London, United Kingdom
     COLLA Industry/Research Chairs
     Anna Divoli, Pingar Research, New Zealand 
       Jin-Hee Cho, U.S. Army Research Laboratory (USARL) - Adelphi, USA 
       Holger Kett, Fraunhofer IAO - Stuttgart, Germany 
       Raymond A Liuzzi, Raymond Technologies - Whitesboro, USA 
       Jérôme Dantan, Esitpa, France
     COLLA Publicity Chairs
     Dapeng Dong, University College Cork, Ireland 
       Benjamin Knoke, BIBA – Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik, Germany 
       Mateusz Adamczyk, University of Warsaw, Poland 
       Kenji Takagi, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan 
       Yann Veilleroy, Université Catholique de Lille, France
     COLLA 2015 Technical Program Committee
     Imad Abugessaisa, Karolinska Institutet - Stockholm,  Sweden
       Marcelo  Armentano, ISISTAN Research Institute (CONICET/UNICEN), Argentina
       Liz  Bacon, University of Greenwich, UK
       Thierry Badard, Laval University, Canada
       Mostafa Bassiouni, University of Central Florida, USA
       Khalid Benali, LORIA - Université de Lorraine, France
       Lasse Berntzen, Vestfold University College - Tønsberg, Norway
       
       Boyan  Bontchev, Sofia University "St. Kl. Ohridski", Bulgaria
       Stainam Brandao, COPPE/Federal University of Rio de  Janeiro, Brazil
       Patrick Brezillon, LIP6, University Pierre and Marie  Curie (UPMC) - Paris, France
       Antonio Capodieci, Università    del Salento, Italy
       Shiping Chen, CSIRO, Australia
       Xueqi Cheng, Institute of Computing Technology / Chinese Academy of   Sciences, China
       Jin-Hee Cho, U.S. Army Research Laboratory (USARL) -  Adelphi, USA
       Kevin Curran, University of Ulster - Derry, Northern  Ireland, UK
       
       Fulvio D’Antonio, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy
       Arianna D'Ulizia, IRPPS-CNR, Italy
       Antonio De Nicola, ENEA, Italy
       Jerome Dinet, Univeristé Paul Verlaine - Metz, France
       Anna Divoli, Pingar Research, New Zealand
       Wael M El-Medany, University Of Bahrain, Bahrain
       Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virgina Military  Institute/Virginia Tech, USA
       Jens Eschenbächer, Priv. Fachhochschule für Wirtschaft & Technik (FHWT), Germany
       Viviana Gaballo, University of Macerata, Italy
       Carlos Granell, European Commission - Joint research  Centre, Italy
       Lei Guo, Ohio State University - Columbus, USA
       Samer Hassan, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
       Atsuo Hazeyama, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan
       Celso M. Hirata, Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica,  Brazil
       
       Chi Hung, Tsinghua University, China
       Sergio Ilarri, University of Zaragoza, Spain
       Kashif Javed, Abo Akademi    University, Finland
       Guillermo Jimenez, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico 
       Henric Johnson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
       Rajkumar Kannan, Bishop Heber College (Autonomous) -  Tiruchirappalli, India
       Nikos  Karacapilidis, University of Patras, Greece
       Ilias Karasavvidis, University of Thessaly, Greece
       Hassan Karimi, University of Pittsburgh, USA
       Holger Kett, Fraunhofer IAO - Stuttgart, Germany
       Benjamin  Knoke, BIBA  - Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik GmbH, Germany
       Dimitris Kotzinos, TEI of Serres, Greece
       George Kousiouris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
       
       Georgios Lappas, Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia, Greece
       Julie Le Cardinal, Laboratoire Genie Industriel, Ecole Centrale Paris, France
       Xiaoqing (Frank) Liu, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA 
       Raymond A Liuzzi, Raymond Technologies - Whitesboro,  USA
       
       M. Antonia Martínez-Carreras, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
       Robert Matzinger, University of Applied Science  Burgenland, Austria
       Christoph Meinel, Hasso-Plattner-Institut GmbH -  Potsdam, Germany
       Klaus Moessner, University of Surrey, UK
       Martin Molhanec, Czech  Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
       Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia
       Eugénio Oliveira, University of Porto, Portugal
       Mourad Chabane Oussalah, LINA - CNRS Faculté des Sciences de Nantes,   France 
       Willy Picard, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
       Agostino Poggi, University of Parma, Italy
       Yann Pollet, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France
       Elaheh Pourabbas, National Research Council of Italy, Rome
       Claudia Raibulet, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
       Stuart Rubin, SSC-PAC, USA
       Francesc Saiqi Rubió, Open University of Catalonia (UOC), Spain
       Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem, Ain Shams University - Cairo, Egypt
       Pascal Salembier, University of Technology of Troyes,  France
       Corrado Santoro, University of Catania, Italy
       Marcello  Sarini, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
       Silvia Schiaffino, ISISTAN (CONICET - UNCPBA), Argentina
       Thomas Schuster, FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, Germany
       Wolfgang Seiringer,  Vienna University of Technology, Austria
       
       Haifeng Shen, Flinders University, Australia
       Dongwan Shin, New Mexico Tech, USA 
       Mohamed Shehab, University of North Carolina at  Charlotte, USA
       Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami - Coral Gables, USA
       Alexander Smirnov, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics & Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS), Russia
       Howard Spoelstra, Open  University in the Netherlands,  Netherlands
       Hussein  Suleman, University of Cape Town, South Africa
       Julian Szymanski, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
       Yehia Taher, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines –   Versaille, France
       Christophe Thovex, CNRS 6241 / University of Nantes, France
       Katya Aries, Roehampton Online Education Programmes - Laureate    International Universities, UK
       Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
       Manolis Tzagarakis, University of Patras, Greece
       Michael Vassilakopoulos, University of Thessaly,  Greece
       Zhengping Wu, University of Bridgeport, USA
       Mudasser F. Wyne, National University, USA
       Kevin X. Yang, Wolfson College / University of Cambridge, UK
       Yi Yang, Fontbonne University, St Louis, USA
       Ting Yu, University of Sydney, Australia
       Weihai Yu, University of Tromsø, Norway
       Xiaokun Zhang, Athabasca University, Canada