CTS 2013 preface

Welcome to the 2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2013). During the conference, attendees will see and interact with a broad spectrum of methodologies and technologies that relate to cooperation, coordination, communication, and collaboration at both the client and backend (cloud) levels. This year's conference presents a wide array of papers, posters, workshops, panels, demonstrations, exhibits, presentations, and tutorials addressing a broad range of topics including sensors, robots, people, and social networks, big data, biology knowledgebase, groupware, citizen science, crowd sourcing, human-computer interaction, visualization, virtual environments, user interfaces, gaming, e-learning, e-business, e-health, emergency response, knowledge management, decision making using clouds, global grids, P2P, multi-agent systems, mobile clients, wearable devices, Web 2.0, with resilience, trust and security, and related human and socio-technical collaboration issues.