[agents] Call for Papers: International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN 2013)

[Marco Lützenberger]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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The 4th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and
Pervasive Networks (EUSPN 2013),

October 21-24, 2013
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-13
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The 4th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive
Networks (EUSPN) is a premier venue for bringing together multi-disciplinary
researchers, professionals and practitioners from both academia and industry,
who are engaged in different facets of ubiquitous systems and pervasive
networks. The conference encourages innovative research contributions providing
the recent significant developments and promising future trends of EUSPN based
applications, systems, tools, environments and infrastructures in the fields of
EUSPN and related areas.

All EUSPN-2013 accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings
published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science
series on-line. 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. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP
(http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). Selected papers will be invited for publication in
the special issues of:

- Journal of Computer and System Sciences, by Elsevier
- The Computer Journal, by Oxford
- Journal of Mobile Information Systems, by IOS Press

Papers on either completed or ongoing research are invited in the following and
related tracks.

- Autonomic and Pervasive Network Management
- Databases and Ubiquitous Data Management
- Human Computer Interaction for Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing
- Internet of Things
- Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Networks
- Multi-agent Systems and Intelligent Computing
- Pervasive Algorithms, Protocols and Networks
- Pervasive Cloud, Cluster and Grid Computing
- Pervasive Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Vehicular Networks & Applications
- Pervasive/Ubiquitous Ad hoc, Mesh and Sensor Networks
- RFID Technologies for Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing
- Sensing and Actuation Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks
- Service Oriented Pervasive Computing
- Software Engineering for Pervasive Systems and Applications
- Ubiquitous Data Mining
- Ubiquitous Intelligence & Cyber-Physical Computing
- Ubiquitous Multimedia and Social Computing
- Ubiquitous Security and Privacy Solutions
- Ubiquitous Smart Systems and Applications
- Ubiquitous Static and Mobile Systems

Paper Submission Guidelines:
Submitted papers must be no longer than 8 pages,
including all figures and references. The submitted paper must be formatted
according to the guidelines of Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier. The EUSPN
submission link can be found at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=euspn2013.
All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be printed
in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access
Procedia Computer Science series on-line. At least one author of each accepted
paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the work.

Important Dates:
Workshop Proposal Due: February 10, 2013
Submission Deadline: April 10, 2013
Author Notification: June 10, 2013
Final Manuscript Due: July 10, 2013

Committee:

General Chairs
Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia

General Vice-Chairs
Karim Djouani, South African Institute of Technology, South Africa
Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke Univ., Canada

Program Chairs
Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

Advisory Committee
Ali Ghorbani, Univ. of New Brunswick, Canada
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Edward Blum, University of Southern California, USA
Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK
Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada
Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan
Nirwan Ansari, Univ. Heights Newark, USA
Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy

Program Vice Chairs
Jiang Li, Howard University, USA
Weiwei Fang, Beijing Jiaotong Univ., China
Luk Knapen, Hasselt University, Belgium
Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK
Navonil Mustafee, Swansea University, UK
Stephane Galland, UTBM, France
Shibo He, Zhejiang University, China
Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy
Marco Lützenberger, TU Berlin, Germany
Habib M. Ammari, UM-Dearborn, USA
Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia
Johnson Agbinya, La Trobe University, Australia
Hong-Linh Truong, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria
Lynda Mokdad, Univ. Paris Est-Creteil, France
Tzung-Shi Chen, National Univ. of Taiwan, Taiwan
Keivan Kian-Mehr, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Bart De Decker, KU Leuven, Belgium
Tarek Sheltami, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
Anish Kurien, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa

Workshops Chairs
Ansar Yasser, Hasselt University, Belgium
Stephane Galland, UTBM, France

International Journals Chair
Michael Sheng, Univ. of Adelaide, Australia

Publicity Chairs
Xitong Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Mike Ma, University of Adelaide, Australia