[agents] CFPs: The 2nd International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2011)

[Elhadi Shakshuki]

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

The 2nd International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and
Technologies (ANT-2011)

                            19-21 September 2011
                      Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

       Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11/

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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Full Paper Submission:         March 15, 2011
- Acceptance Notification:       May     15, 2011
- Camera-Ready Submission:  June     15, 2011

The International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies
(ANT-2011) 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.

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

PUBLICATION
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Papers accepted for the conference will be printed in the conference
proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia
Computer Science series (on-line and CD). Procedia Computer Sciences is
hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (
www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers
in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering
Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (
www.ei.org/compendex). The papers will contain linked references, XML
versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to
all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your
proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special
issues of:

(1) Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, by Springer
      http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652

(2) Social Network Analysis and Mining Journal, by Springer

http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/13278

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
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Submitted technical papers must be no longer than 8 pages for full papers
and 4 pages for short papers including all figures and references, and must
be formatted according to Elsevier guidelines (
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11/).

COMMITTEES
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General Chairs
  Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
  Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia

Program Chairs
  Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada
  Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
  Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan

Advisory Committee
  Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
  Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada
  Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
  Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
  Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
  Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
  Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia

Workshops Chairs
  Sajid Hussain, Fisk University, USA
  Senol Erdogan, Maltepe University, Turkey

Program vice Chairs
  Jiang Li, Howard University, USA
  Ye Tian, Univ. of Science and Technology of China, China
  Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany
  Agustinus Waluyo, Institute for Infocom Research, Singapore
  Farookh Hussain, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
  Javier Garc’a-Villalba, Universidad Comp. de Madrid, Spain
  Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
  Anis Koubaa, Al-Imam University, Saudi Arabia/CISTER Research Unit,
Portugal
  Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia
  Thomas Grill, University of Salzburg, Austria
  Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications
  Soraya Kouadri MostŽfaoui, The Open University, UK
  Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
  Tarek Sheltami, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
  Bessam Abdulrazak, Sherbrooke University, Canada
  Keivan Kian-Mehr, University of Western Ontario, Canada
  Tansel Ozyer, TOBB Econo & Tech University, Turkey

Local Arrangement Chairs
  Nauman Aslam, Dalhousie University, Canada
  Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario, Canada

Publicity Chairs
  Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia
  Abdel Ilah Alshbatat, Tafila Technical University, Jordan

International Liaison Chairs
  Imad Saleh, University of Paris VIII, France
  Bernady Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan

Awards Chairs
  Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada
  Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait

Steering Committee Chair
  Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada