Technical Program is now online !

Submission link: LSDVE  2015 - Easychair

The recent advances in networking have determined an increasing use 
of information technology to support distributed cooperative applications. 
Several novel applications have emerged in this area, such as Large 
Scale Distributed Virtual Environments (LSDVEs). These include 
distributed social networks,  distributed social games, collaborative 
recommender systems, collaborative learning systems, large scale crowd 
based applications, supported collaborative work (CSCW).
The realization of these applications requires to afford several challenges,
 like the definition of user interfaces, coordination protocols, and 
proper middle-ware and architectures supporting distributed cooperation. 
Collaborative applications may greatly benefit from the support of 
different kinds of platforms, both cloud and peer to peer and also 
platforms recently proposed for Internet of  things (IoT), like fog computing. 
Integration of different platforms, for instance mobile and cloud 
environments is currently a challenge.
This workshop aims  to provide a venue for researchers to present and 
discuss important aspects of large scale collaborative applications and 
of the platforms supporting them. The track's aim is to investigate open 
challenges for such applications, related to both the applications design 
and to the definition of proper architectures. Some important challenges 
are, for instance, collaborative protocols design, latency reduction/hiding 
techniques for guaranteeing real time constraints, large-scale processing 
of user information, privacy and security issues, state 
consistency/persistence.
The workshop will both present assessment of current state and 
introduce further directions.