[agents] ANT (CfPs FINAL): 9th Intl. Conf. on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies, Porto, Portugal (Final Submission Date is January 13, 2018: FIRM)

[Elhadi Shakshuki]

Final Call for Papers

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
- Paper Submission Due:            January 13, 2018 (Final)
- Acceptance Notification:          February 9, 2018
- Camera-Ready Submission:     March 9, 2018

Introduction
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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