The increased need for people and organizations to continue collaborating whilst changing physical location and crossing organizational boundaries has resulted in a wave of new supporting technologies, and generated interest in tackling some of the difficult research issues arsing in such a context. The latter was the subject of the Third IEEE International Workshop on Distributed and Mobile Collaboration (DMC) at WETICE 2005, summirized here.

The DMC Workshop included 10 full papers on topics grouped into four areas: Web-based collaboration, Formal description and consistency checking of collaborative processes, Models and architectures for collaborative services, and P2P collaborative infrastructures. The discussions at the workshop outlined several important issues regarding the field of distributed collaborative applications.