This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference
on Collaborative Computing: Networking Applications and Worksharing CollaborateCom 2016
held in Beijing China in November 2016. The 66 papers presented were carefully reviewed and
selected from 116 submissions and focus on topics such as: participatory sensing crowdsourcing
and citizen science architectures protocols and enabling technologies for collaborative
computing networks and systems autonomic computing and quality of services in collaborative
networks systems and applications collaboration in pervasive and cloud computing
environments collaboration in data-intensive scientific discovery collaboration in social
media big data and spatio-temporal data in collaborative environments systems collaboration
techniques in data-intensive computing and cloud computing.
