The recent advancement of workflow technologies and adoption of the Service-Oriented Architecture
(SOA) has much facilitated the automation of business collaboration within and across organizations to
increase their competiveness and responsiveness to the fast evolving global economic environment. The
widespread of mobile technologies has further resulted in an increasing demand for the support of

Mobile Business Collaboration (MBC) across multiple platforms anytime and anywhere. Examples
include supply-chain logistics, group calendars, and dynamic human resources planning. As mobile
devices become more powerful, the adoption of mobile computing is imminent. However, mobile
business collaboration is not merely porting the software with an alternative user interface, but rather
involves a wide range of new requirements, constraints, and technical challenges.

Today the creation, operation, and evolution of such research and practice raise concerns that range
from high-level requirements and policy modeling through to the deployment of specific implementation
technologies and paradigms, and involve a wide (and ever-growing) range of methodologies, tools, and technologies.
They also cover a broad spectrum of vertical domains, industry segments, government and public services, from
electronic and mobile commerce to real-time applications for extended enterprises and virtual communities.

We intentionally seeks scientists, engineers, educators, solution developers, policy makers, management, analysts, and others who have insight, vision, and understanding of the big challenges in Mobile Business Collaboration.

This special issue also aims at helping in communicating and disseminating relevant recent research across disciplines, cultures, and communities.

Topic include but not limited to:

Principles, theories, models, challenges, legal, and social issues of MBC
MBC requirements, design, implementation, and case studies
Inter- and Intra-organizational integration for mobile platforms
Mobile databases, services, and workflows
Multi-databases, federated databases, parallel, and distributed Databases for MBC
Temporal, spatial, and mobile databases for MBC
Data mining and knowledge discovery for MBC
Context and location sensitive applications
RFID and sensor data management for MBC
Service Level Agreements (SLA), quality, and reliability
Web Services and ontology support for MBC
Contents management and man-machine interactions for MBC
Agent based technologies for MBC
Virtual organizations and supply-chain issues for MBC
Trust, reputation, security, and privacy in MBC
Web 2.0 and 3.0 for MBC
Cloud computing for MBC

Schedule

. Deadline for submission: June 1, 2011.
. Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2011.
. Deadline for revised paper: July 1, 2011.
. Publication: 2011

Submission Instructions

Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in Microsoft Word format, using APA citation styles.
IGI does not use section numbers.
Manuscripts should follow the IGI guides: http://www.igi-global.com/authorseditors.aspx
The submission website is as follows: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijssoe2010
(Please choose the track "SI on MBC" for this special issue.)
All other manuscripts must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere.

Guest Editors

Yi Zhuang, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China (contact: zhuang@zjgsu.edu.cn)
Hua Hu, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China
Haiyang Hu, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China
Jie Shao, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Editor-in-chief
Dr. Dickson K. W. Chiu
Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong,
email: dicksonchiu@ieee.org