[agents] [ANT2018] -*FINAL* deadline extension- Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies. Porto, Portugal (May 8-11, 2018)

[Haroon Malik]

The 9th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2018) 
Porto, Portugal 
May 8-11, 2018 

Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/ 
Workshops: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/#workshop 
Tutorials: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/#tutorial 

Important Dates 

- Workshops Proposals Due: November 30, 2017 

- Paper Submission Due: December 15, 2017 (Extended to January 13, 2018) 

- Acceptance Notification: February 5, 2018 

- Camera-Ready Submission: March 5, 2018 

ANT 2018 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 <http://www.Elsevier.com>  and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com <http://www.sciencedirect.com> ), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com <http://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 <http://www.scopus.com> ) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com <http://www.engineeringvillage.com> ). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex <http://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: 1.588), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) 

- Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (IF: 2.395), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779) 

- IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 3.654), by IEEE (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645) 

- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IF: 3.724), by IEEE (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6979) 

ANT 2018 will be held in Porto, Portugal. Porto is the second-largest city in Portugal after Lisbon and one of the major urban areas of the Iberian Peninsula. Porto is also called the Invicta because during the 19th century Portuguese civil war, the city withstood a siege of over a year.The urban area of Porto, which extends beyond the administrative limits of the city, has a population of 2.1 million in an area of 389 km2 (150 sq mi), making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a gamma- level global city by the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Study Group, the only Portuguese city besides Lisbon to be recognised as a global city. 

Located along the Douro river estuary in Northern Portugal, Porto is one of the oldest European centres, and its historical core was proclaimed a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996. The western part of its urban area extends to the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean. Its settlement dates back many centuries, when it was an outpost of the Roman Empire. One of Portugal's internationally famous exports, port wine, is named after Porto, since the metropolitan area, and in particular the cellars of Vila Nova de Gaia, were responsible for the packaging, transport and export of the fortified wine. In 2014 and 2017, Porto was elected The Best European Destination by the Best European Destinations Agency. 

ANT-2018 will be held in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-18/). 

Conference Tracks 

- Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications 

- Big Data and Analytics 

- Cloud Computing 

- Context-awareness and Multimodal Interfaces 

- Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies 

- Human Computer Interaction 

- 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, Sustainable Cities and Climate Change Management 

- Smart Environments and Applications 

- Systems Security and Privacy 

- Systems Software Engineering 

- Vehicular Networks and Applications 

- General Track 

Committees 

General Chairs 

Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada 

Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia 

Program Chairs 

Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA 

Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium 

Local Chairs 

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

João C. P. Faria, University of Porto, Portugal 

Workshops Chair 

Stephane Galland, UTBM, France Program 

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 

International Journals Chair 

Javier Jesus Sanchez Medina, ULPGC, Spain 

Vice Chairs 

Boulmakoul Azedine, Hassan II University, Morocco 

Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK 

Kechar Bouabdellah, Oran University, Algeria 

Samia Bouzefrane, CEDRIC Lab, France 

Lars Braubach, Hamburg University, Germany 

Amine Dhraief, Manouba University, Tunisia 

Roberto Di Pietro, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar 

Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, France 

Wael El-Medany, University of Bahrain, Bahrain 

Etienne Alain Feukeu, Vaal University of Technology, South Africa 

Antonio Filieri, Imperial College London, England 

Luk Knapen, Hasselt University Belgium 

Prashant Kumar, Surrey University, United Kingdom 

Flavio Lombardi, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy 

Ahmed Nait Sidi Moh, University of Picardie Jules Verne, France 

Cristina Seceleanu, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden 

Khaled Shaaban, Qatar University, Qatar 

Yves Vanrompay, Hasselt University, Belgium 

Yun Zhou, Shaanxi Normal University, China 

Publicity Chairs 

Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium 

Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Guelma University, Algeria 

Sarmad Ullah Khan, CECOS University, Pakistan 

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-18/#programCommittees 

Steering Committee Chair and Founder of ANT 

Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada 

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