[agents] ANT 2023 CFP: The 14th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (March 15-17, Leuven, Belgium)

[Elhadi Shakshuki]

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Conference: The 14th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT)
Location: Leuven, Belgium
Date: March 15-17, 2023
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Conference Website:  http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-23/
Workshops: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-23/#workshop

Important Dates
- Workshops Proposals Due: September 15, 2022
- Paper Submission Due: October 15, 2022
- Acceptance Notification: December 12, 2022
- Camera-Ready Submission: January 9, 2023

ANT 2023 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:

- International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 4.594), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652)
- International Journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (IF:3.006), Springer (https://www.springer.com/journal/779)
- International Journal on Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice (IF: 3.992), by Elsevier (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice/)

ANT 2023 will be held in Leuven, Belgium. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world.

Leuven's Town Hall is one of the best-known Gothic town halls worldwide and Leuven's pride and joy. It took three architects and thirty years to build it. Leuven's 'Hall of Fame' features 236 statues, which were only added to the façade after 1850. There are 220 men and 16 women in total. On the bottom floor are famous Leuven scientists, artists and historical figures, dressed in Burgundian garb. The first floor is reserved for the patron saints of the various parishes of Leuven. Above them the façade is adorned by the counts and dukes of Brabant while the towers primarily feature biblical figures.

ANT 2023 will be held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry (EDI40).

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
  - Modelling 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

General Chairs
  Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK
  Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia

Program Chairs
  Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada
  Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium

Workshops' Chair
  Stephane Galland, UTBM, France

Vice Chairs
 Muhammad Adnan, Hasselt University Belgium
 Manzoor Ahmed, Qingdao University, China
 Ayoub Bahnasse, Hassan II University, Morocco
 Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK
 Samia Bouzefrane, CEDRIC Lab Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France
 Junsung Choi, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
 Stefano Cresci, National Research Council, Italy
 Robertas Damasevicius, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
 Giovanni Da San Martino, University of Padua, Italy
 Roberto Di Pietro, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
 Solomiia Fedushko, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine
 Mohammad Ghanim, Ministry of Transport, Qatar
 Stefano Guarino, IAC-CNR Rome, Italy
 Faouzi Kammoun, Ecole Supérieure Privée d'Ingénierie et de Technologies, Tunis
 Bouabdellah Kechar, Oran 1 Ahmed BenBella University, Algeria
 Manzoor Khan, UAEU, UAE
 Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada
 Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria
 Ka Lok Man, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
 Yazan Mualla, UTBM, France
 Flavio Lombardi, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy
 Aneta Poniszewska-Marańda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland
 Cristina Seceleanu, Mälardalen University, Sweden
 Khaled Shaaban, Utah Valley University, USA
 Kamran Siddique, Xiamen University Malaysia, Malaysia
 Mohamed Tabaa, EMSI, Morocco
 Igor Tchappi, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Technical Program Committee
  http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-23/#programCommittees

Publicity Chairs
  Rachida AIT Abdelouahid, Hassan II University, Morocco
  Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium
  Siddardha Kaja, Air Canada, Canada
  Salam Traboulsi, University of Applied Sciences, Germany
  Farhan Ullah, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

International Journals Chairs
  Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA
  Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia

Advisory Committee
  Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
  Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
  Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
  Ibad Kureshi, Inlecomm Systems, Belgium
  Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
  Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
  Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
  Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia

International Liaison Chairs
  Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada
  Paul Davidsson, Malmo University, Sweden
  David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

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