[agents] [ANT 2017] ANT 2017 final CFPs: The 8th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (May 16-19, 2017, Madeira, Portugal)

[Wim Ectors]

 The 8th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and
Technologies (ANT-2017)

Madeira, Portugal

May 16-19, 2017

Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-17/

*Important Dates

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- Workshops Proposal Due: November 1, 2016

- Paper Submission Due: January 20, 2016 (FINAL)

- Acceptance Notification: February 13, 2017

- Camera-Ready Submission: March 13, 2017

ANT 2017 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. Selected papers will be invited for
publication, in the special issues of:

- Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 0.835), by
Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652)

- Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 2.430), by Elsevier (
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/)

- IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 1.547), by IEEE (
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645)

- Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (IF: 1.498), by Springer (
http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779)

ANT 2017 will be held in Madeira, a Portuguese archipelago. Madeira is a
popular year-round tourist destination, known for its remarkable
mountainous scenery and mild year-long climate. Although, Madeira is part
of Europe it is approximately 1,000 km from the continent while being only
520 km from the coast of Africa. It is about an hour and a half flight from
the capital of Portugal, Lisbon. Funchal, the picturesque capital of
Madeira, is situated on the south coast of the island and one of Atlantic
Oceans most popular cruise ship ports. Madeira is a scenic island with many
unique destinations such as the Laurisilva forest, a UNESCO World Heritage
site.

ANT-2017 will be held in conjunction with the 7th International Conference
on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT,
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-17/).

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

- Real-time Big Data Stream Mining Architecture

- Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications

- Smart, Sustainable Cities and Climate Change Management

- Smart Environments and Applications

- Systems Security and Privacy

- Systems Software Engineering

- Vehicular Networks and Applications

- General Track

COMMITTEES

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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 Ð Hasselt University, Belgium

Nuno Varandas, IPN Coimbra, Portugal

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

Samia Bouzefrane,CEDRIC Lab Conservatoire National des Arts et MŽtiers,
France

Lars Braubach, Hamburg University, Germany

Amine Dhraief, Manouba University, Tunisia

Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy

Antonio Filieri, Imperial College London, England

Chaudhary Muhammad Imran, KSU, Saudi Arabia

Nafaa Jabeur, GU Tech, Oman

Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan

Luk Knapen, IMOB Ð Hasselt University, Belgium

Flavio Lombardi, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy

Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA

Nils Masuch, DAI Ð TU Berlin, Germany

Ana C. R. Paiva, University of Porto, Portugal

Francesco Pilla, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro, University of Paris 1, France

Lo'ai Tawalbeh, Umm AlQura University, KSA

Yves Vanrompay, Hasselt University, Belgium

International Journals Chair

Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia

Yongrui Qin, University of Huddersfield, UK

Publicity Chairs

Rui Din’s, Instituto de Telecomunica ›es, FCT-UNL, Lisbon, Portugal

Sarmad Ullah Khan, CECOS University, Pakistan

Josep Maria Salanova, CERT, Greece

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-17/#programCommittees

Steering Committee Chair and Founder of ANT

Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada