[agents] CFPs: The 5th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT'14)

Elhadi Shakshuki elhadi.shakshuki at acadiau.ca
Wed Jan 8 08:35:40 EST 2014


          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/



IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper Submission:                      January 31, 2014 (Extended)
- Students Symposium:                 Feb 15, 2014
- Acceptance Notification:             March 1, 2014
- Camera-Ready Submission:        April 4, 2014

All 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 and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. 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 Chair
  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
  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


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