This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies, CollabTech 2016, held in Kanazawa, Japan, in September 2016. The 16 revised full papers presented together with 4 short papers and a keynote were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The papers focus on the following topics: cross-cultural collaboration; learning support systems; social networking; rescue and health support; real and virtual collaboration.

"This book covers emerging topics in collaboration, Web 2.0, and social computing"--Provided by publisher.

This two-volume set LNCS 4275/4276 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the four confederated conferences CoopIS 2006, DOA 2006, GADA 2006, and ODBASE 2006 held as OTM 2006 in Montpellier, France in October/November 2006. The 106 revised full and nine short papers presented together with four keynote speeches were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 361 submissions.

"This book offers reflective accounts of the key research themes that have emerged in the last few years as electronic government services have become commonplace in the world"--Provided by publisher.

Cooperative systems design requires a deep understanding of the cooperative work of groups and organizations. The papers included in this book draw from an empirical background including studies in healthcare, homecare, software-development, architectural design, marine insurance industry and learning in university settings.