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

[elhadi.shakshuki at acadiau.ca]

             			 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
- General track: Distributed systems, networks and applications

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
(3) Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, by Springer
     http://www.springer.com/computer/user+interfaces/journal/779


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
   Lars Braubach, University of Hamburg, 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 Most?faoui, 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