Preface

IEEE/EAI CollaborateCom is an annual international forum for dissemination of original ideas and research results in collaborative computing networks, systems, and applications. The key goal of IEEE/EAI CollaborateCom is to bring together researchers from networking, systems, CSCW, virtual laboratories, and collaborative learning and education areas. IEEE/EAI CollaborateCom 2013 in Austin, Texas, USA is the ninth conference of the series and it reflects the accelerated growth of collaborative computing, both as research and application areas.