[agents] ANT-2010: CFP

[Elhadi Shakshuki]

            			 C A LL   F O R   P A P E R S

The International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2010) 
		
                                26-28 July, 2010
                        Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada

            Conference Website: http://www.acadiau.ca/ant10/home.php

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IMPORTANT DATES
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• Full Paper Submission: 		January 10, 2010    
• Acceptance Notification: 		March 15, 2010     
• Camera-Ready Submission:	 	May 01, 2010         
• Conference Days: 			July 26-28, 2010    

The International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2010) is a leading international conference which provides an international forum for researchers, developers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to address research challenges and to present and discuss research ideas, developments and experiences related to the ambient systems infrastructure, models, and technologies. 
   The general aim of ambient systems is to provide an environment wherein computing devices exist anywhere and everywhere. In such systems mobile and embedded computing devices form ad hoc collaboration using different communication networks (e.g., wireless networks, RFID, etc) in order to share and exchange information and provide services. Ambient systems pose new research challenges due to the open and unreliable nature of the environment and the complexity and heterogeneity of the computing devices and the underlying communication networks. These characteristics challenge traditional techniques and demand new ways of approaching the problems related to the ambient systems.
      
TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Prospective authors are invited to submit papers to the following research tracks. Details on topics of each track are available at the conference website.

- Ambient-oriented Autonomic Networks and Communications
- Ambient Systems Software Engineering
- Ambient Systems Security and Privacy
- Distributed Ambient Artificial Intelligence
- Emerging Ambient Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies
- Multimodal Interfaces for Ambient Systems 
- Service Oriented Computing for Ambient Systems & Applications 
- Smart Environments and Applications in Ambient Systems

PUBLICATION
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Papers accepted for the conference will be published in the proceedings of Communications in Computer and Information Science series, Springer. Selected papers will be invited for possible publication, in the special issues of: 

(1) Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing
      http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652
(2) Journal of Service Oriented Computing and Applications
      http://www.springer.com/computer/communications/journal/11761
(3) Journal of Multiagent and Grid Systems
      http://www.iospress.nl/loadtop/load.php?isbn=15741702
(4) Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
      http://www.springer.com/computer/user+interfaces/journal/779

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
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Submitted technical papers must be no longer than 10 pages for full papers and 6 pages for short papers including all figures and references, and must be formatted according to Springer guidelines. 
http://www.springer.com/series/7899  

COMMITTEES
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General Chairs
  Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
  Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan                                          

Program Chairs
  Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
  Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
  David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

Advisory Committee
  Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia
  Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada
  Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
  Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
  Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
  Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy 

Program vice Chairs

  Agustinus Waluyo, Institute for Infocom Research, Singapore
  Arantza Aldea, Oxford Brookes University, UK
  Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada
  Jiang Li, Howard University, USA
  Kevin Curran, University of Ulster, Ireland 
  Khaled Ali, Ottawa University, Canada  
  Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany
  Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
  Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui, The Open University, UK
  Soumaya Cherkaoui, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
  Takahiro HARA, Osaka University, Japan 
  Tarek Sheltami, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
  Tom Lunney, University of Ulster, Ireland 
  Tomoya Enokido, Risho University, Japan
  Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia
  Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE


Local Arrangement Committee
  Daniel Silver, Acadia University, Canada
  Darcy Benoit, Acadia University, Canada
  Darrell Crooks, Acadia University, Canada
  Duane Currie, Acadia University, Canada
  Elaine Schofield, Acadia University, Canada
  Karen Wilder, Acadia University, Canada
  Richard Cunningham, Acadia University, Canada

Steering Committee
  Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
  Ismail Khalil, Johannes Kepler University Linz Austria

Awards Chairs
  Mieso Denko, Guelph University, Canada
  Rachid Anane, Coventry University, UK

Publicity Chairs
  Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia
  Jason Gu, Dalhousie University, Canada

Contacts
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  Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
      Email: m.younas at brookes.ac.uk
  Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
      Email: elhadi.shakshuki at acadiau.ca
  David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
      Email: david.taniar at infotech.monash.edu.au