[agents] The 3rd Intl Conf. on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2012) - Niagara Falls, Canada

[Elhadi Shakshuki]

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           The 3rd International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2012)

                                                   27-29 August, 2012
                                         Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

                       Conference Website:  http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-12/
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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Full Paper Submission:            February 10, 2012
- Acceptance Notification:          April 10, 2012
- Camera-Ready Submission:    May 10, 2012
- Workshops Proposals:             December 1, 2011  (http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-12/#workshop)


ANT-2012 accepted papers 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 (http://www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (http://www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (http://www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (http://www.ei.org/compendex). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). Selected papers will be invited for publication in special issues of international journals.

ANT-2012 will be held in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS, http://www.mobiwis.org/2012/).


Conference Tracks:
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- Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications
- Automatic Networks and Communications
- Data Management
- Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies
- Multimedia and Social Computing
- Multimodal Interfaces
- Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications
- Smart Environments and Applications
- Systems Security and Privacy
- Systems Software Engineering
- Vehicular Networks and Applications
- General Track


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

Workshops Chairs
  Senol Erdogan, Maltepe University, Turkey
  Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany

Program vice Chairs
  Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
  Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer-Institut for Computer Graphics IGD, Germany
  Jiang Li, Howard University, USA
  Tarek Sheltami, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
  Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia
  Irena Mlynkova, Charles University, Czech Republic
  Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia
  Anis Koubaa, Al-Imam University, Saudi Arabia/CISTER Research Unit, Portugal
  Keivan Kian-Mehr, University of Western Ontario, Canada
  Tansel Ozyer, TOBB Econo & Tech University, Turkey
  Thomas Grill, University of Salzburg, Austria
  Mohyuddin, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Saudi Arabia
  Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
  Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada
  Abdallah Mhamed, Telecom SudParis, France
  Wail Mardini, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
  Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada
  Luis Javier García Villalba, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
  Agustinus Waluyo, Monash University, Australia
  Bharat Jayaraman, University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA
  Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada
  G. Ram Mohana Reddy, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India
  Adnan Al-Anbuky, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

International Journals Chair
  Nauman Aslam, Northumbria University, UK

Local Arrangement Chairs
  Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario, Canada
  Bessam Abdulrazak, Sherbrooke University, Canada

Publicity Chairs
  Weiwei Fang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
  Djamal Benslimane, Lyon 1 University, France
  Thais Regina de Moura Braga Silva, Federal University of Vicosa, Brazil
  Wael M El-Medany, University of Bahrain, Bahrain

International Liaison Chairs
  Karim Djouani, South African Institute of Technology, South African
  Verdi Marchm, HP Labs Singapore, Singapore

Awards Chairs
  Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait
  Bernady Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan

Steering Committee Chair
  Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada