[agents] 2nd CfP: ANT 2014 - 5th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies

[Nils Masuch]

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-------------- Call for Papers ----------------------


The 5th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2014)


in Conjunction with

The 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT-14)


Hasselt, Belgium

                                                                2-5 June, 2014


Conference Website:  http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-14/

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IMPORTANT DATES

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- Workshop Proposal:                                   November 1, 2013

- Paper Submission:                                      January 4, 2013

- Students Symposium:                               Feb 15, 2014

- Acceptance Notification:                          March 1, 2014

- Camera-Ready Submission:                    April 4, 2014



ANT-2014 accepted papers will be printed 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<http://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 2014 is co-organized & co-hosted by the Hasselt University, Belgium. Since 1973 Hasselt University is located on the Campus Diepenbeek, which occupies an attractive 150 acre site in the middle of Limburg's green belt. It is 2 kms west of the town centre of Diepenbeek, a residential town of 17.717 inhabitants, and 4 kms east of Hasselt which has a population of about 69.529 and is the administrative and commercial centre of the province. Brussels is 90 kms away (to the South-West), Antwerp lies 90 kms to the West, Lige (in the French-speaking part of Belgium) 45 kms to the South, Maastricht (in the Netherlands) 25 kms to the East, Aachen (in Germany) 60 kms to the South-East.


Conference Tracks:

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- Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications

- Automatic Networks and Communications

- Cloud Computing

- Data Management

- Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies

- Internet of Things
- Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications

- Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences

- 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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Honorary Chairs

  Luc De Schepper, Rector, Hasselt University, Belgium



General Chairs

  Geert Wets, IMOB - Hasselt University, Belgium

  Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia

  Nahid Shahmehri, IDA - Linkoping University, Sweden


Program Chairs

  Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada
  Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB - Hasselt University, Belgium

  Karim Djouani, South African Institute of Technology, South Africa


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

  Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada

  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

  Edward Blum, University of Southern California, USA

  Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia



Workshops Chairs

  Zahoor Khan, Dalhouise University, Canada



Program Vice Chairs

  Nicolas Gaud, UTBM, France

  Paul Davidsson, Malmo University, Sweden

  Stephane Galland, UTBM, France

  Shibo He, Zhejiang University, China

  Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy

  Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy
  Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
  Stefan Schmid, TU Berlin, Germany
  Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK

  Habib M. Ammari, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA

  Davy Janssens, IMOB - Hasselt University, Belgium

  Tom Bellemans, Hasselt University, Belgium
  Harry Timmermans, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  Kris Luyten, iMinds - EDM - Hasselt University, Belgium

  Henrik Eriksson, Linkoping University, Sweden
  Ghassan Bhatti, University of Toulouse, France

  Saroja Kanchi, Kettering University, USA

  Elena Troubitsyna, bo Akademi University, Finland
  Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer-Institut for Computer Graphics IGD, Germany

  Dimiter Mulishev, iMinds - DistriNet - KU Leuven, Belgium
  Ridha Khedri, MacMaster University, Canada

  Yolande Berbers, iMinds - DistriNet - KULeuven, Belgium

  Kai Nagel, TU Berlin, Germany

  Lyes Khoukhi, University of Troy, France

  Naeem Muhammad, KU Leuven, Belgium



International Journals Chair

  Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia

  Jian Yu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand



Local Arrangements Chairs

  Luk Knapen, IMOB - Hasselt University, Belgium

  Edith Donders, Hasselt University, Belgium

  Sungjin Cho, Hasselt University, Belgium



Publicity Chairs

  Nils Masuch, DAI - TU Berlin, Germany

  Weiwei Fang, Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU), China

  Nadeem Javaid, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan



International Liaison Chairs

  Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK

  Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy

  Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait

  Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK



Steering Committee Chair

  Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada