[agents] ANT 2016 CfPs: One Week Left for the Final Extension: January 30 (May 23-26, 2016, Madrid, Spain)

[Elhadi Shakshuki]

                  The 7th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2016)
                                                                           Madrid, Spain
                                                                         May 23-26, 2016

                                                       http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-16/

Important Dates
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- Paper Submission Due:             January   30, 2016 (Final)
- Acceptance Notification:            February 21, 2016
- Camera-Ready Submission:       March    21, 2016

ANT 2016 will take place at the Technical School of Telecommunications Engineering (Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicacion-ETSIT) of the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM). This Technical School is the oldest school for the training of Telecommunications Engineers in Spain, covering teaching and research in all fields related to Information and Telecommunications Technology, Solar Energy and Biomedical engineering, and it is one of the leading institutions in those fields in Europe. ETSIT-UPM is located on the Moncloa Campus of Excellence (Ciudad Universitaria), the main University campus in Madrid, and can be accessed by metro and bus.

All ANT 2016 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). 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). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings.

Conference Tracks
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- Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications
- Automatic Networks and Communications
- Big Data and Analytics
- Cloud Computing
- Context-awareness and Multimodal Interfaces
- Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies
- Internet of Things
- Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications
- Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences
- Multimedia and Social Computing
- 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 Chair
  Carlos Conde, Rector Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

General Chairs
  Atta Baddi, University of Reading, UK
  Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada
  Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia

Program Chairs
  Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB - Hasselt University, Belgium
  Jesus Fraile Ardanuy, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

Advisory Committee
  Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
  Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia
  Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
  Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
  Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada
  Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
  Timothy Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
  Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
  Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
  Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia

Workshops Chair
  Stephane Galland, UTBM, France Program

Vice Chairs
  Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK
  Kechar Bouabdellah, Oran University, Algeria
  Xianghui Cao, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
  Amine Dhraief, Manouba University, Tunisia
  Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy
  Nicolas Gaud, UTBM, France
  Chaudhary Muhammad Imran, KSU, Saudi Arabia
  Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
  Davy Janssens, IMOB - Hasselt University, Belgium
  Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada
  Lyes Khoukhi, University of Troy, France
  Luk Knapen, IMOB - Hasselt University, Belgium
  Flavio Lombardi, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy
  Marco Luetzenberger, DAI - TU Berlin, Germany
  Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA
  Philip Moore, Lanzhou University, China
  Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro, University of Paris 1, France
  Hassan Raza, Dalhousie University, Canada
  Bryan Riley, Ohio University, USA
  Yves Vanrompay, Hasselt University, Belgium
  Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer-Institut for Computer Graphics IGD, Germany

International Journals Chair
  Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia
  Xianzhi Wang, the University of Adelaide, Australia

Local Arrangements Chairs
  Jesus Fraile Ardanuy, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
  Roberto Alvaro-Hermana, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

Publicity Chairs
  David Jimenez-Bermejo, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
  Nils Masuch, DAI - TU Berlin, Germany
  Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, International Islamic University Malaysia

International Liaison Chairs
  Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada
  Paul Davidsson, Malmo University, Sweden
  Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy
  David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

Technical Program Committee
  http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-16/#programCommittees

Steering Committee Chair and Founder of ANT
  Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada