[agents] EUSPN 2014 : The 5th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks

[Peng Hu]

Call For Papers

The 5th 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. 

Accepted papers will be 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 international journals special issues. 

IMPORTANT DATES 
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- Workshop Proposals : February 24, 2014 
- Paper Submission Due : April 30, 2014 
- Acceptance Notification : June 24, 2014 
- Final Manuscript Due : July 17, 2014 

TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: 
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- Ad hoc, Mesh and Sensor Networks 
- Autonomic and Pervasive Network Management 
- Cloud, Cluster, Grid and Social Computing 
- Data Science for Future Networks 
- Emerging Pervasive/Ubiquitous Technologies 
- Intelligent Computing 
- Internet of Things 
- Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications 
- Security, Privacy and Trust 
- Vehicular Networks & Telematics Applications 

COMMITTEES 
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General Chairs 
Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada 
Nirwan Ansari, University Heights Newark, USA 

Program Chairs 
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada 
Habib M. Ammari, University of Michigan-Dearborn , USA 

Advisory Committee 
Edward Blum, University of Southern California, USA 
Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada 
Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada 
Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy 
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE 
Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan 
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia 
Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia 

Workshops Chair 
Ansar Yasser, Hasselt University, Belgium 

Local Arrangements Chairs 
Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada 
Janet Light, University of New Brunswick, Canada 
Haroon Malik, University of Waterloo, Canada 

Publicity Chairs 
Jinhua Guo, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA 
Peng Hu, CMC Microsystems, Canada