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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='background:white;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=1 valign=top style='width:1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'></td><td width=471 valign=top style='width:529.15pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>***</span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:#FF2600;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>Final Call for Papers</span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>***</span><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:#FF2600'><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><br></span></b><b><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>The 9th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2018), Porto, Portugal, May 8-11, 2018 </span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'><br>Conference Website: </span><a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#954F72'>http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>Workshops: </span><a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/#workshop" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#954F72'>http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/#workshop</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>Tutorials: </span><a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/#tutorial" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#954F72'>http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/#tutorial</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.55pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#003300'>IMPORTANT DATES</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Paper Submission Due: <span style='background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>January 13, 2018 (<span style='color:red'>Final</span>)</span> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Acceptance Notification: February 9, 2018</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Camera-Ready Submission: March 9, 2018</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.55pt'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#003300'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:11.55pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#003300'>Introduction</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>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 </span><a href="http://www.elsevier.com/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#954F72'>www.Elsevier.com</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (</span><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#954F72'>www.sciencedirect.com</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (</span><a href="http://www.scopus.com/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#954F72'>www.scopus.com</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (</span><a href="http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#954F72'>http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (</span><a href="http://www.scopus.com/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#954F72'>www.scopus.com</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>) and Engineering Village (Ei) (</span><a href="http://www.engineeringvillage.com/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#954F72'>www.engineeringvillage.com</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>). This includes EI Compendex (</span><a href="http://www.ei.org/compendex" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#954F72'>www.ei.org/compendex</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (</span><a href="http://dblp.uni-trier.de/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#954F72'>http://dblp.uni-trier.de/</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>). 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:</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 1.588), by Springer (</span><a href="http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#954F72'>http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>)</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (IF: 2.395), by Springer (</span><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#954F72'>http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>)</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 3.654), by IEEE (</span><a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#954F72'>http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>)</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IF: 3.724), by IEEE (</span><a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6979" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#954F72'>http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6979</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>)</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>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.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>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.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>ANT-2018 will be held in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT, </span><a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-18/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#954F72'>http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-18/</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>).<br><br><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.55pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#003300'>Conference Tracks </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'><br>- Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Big Data and Analytics</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Cloud Computing</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Context-awareness and Multimodal Interfaces</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Human Computer Interaction</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Internet of Things</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Multimedia and Social Computing</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Smart, Sustainable Cities and Climate Change Management</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Smart Environments and Applications</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Systems Security and Privacy</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Systems Software Engineering</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- Vehicular Networks and Applications</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>- General Track</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'><br><br><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:8.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.55pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#003300'>Committees</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'><br><i>General Chairs</i></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>Program Chairs</span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>Local Chairs</span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>Ana C. R. Paiva, University of Porto, Portugal</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> João C. P. Faria, University of Porto, Portugal</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>Workshops Chair</span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Stephane Galland, UTBM, France Program</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>Advisory Committee</span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Timothy Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>International Journals Chair</span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>Javier Jesus Sanchez Medina, ULPGC, Spain </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>Vice Chairs</span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>Boulmakoul Azedine, Hassan II University, Morocco</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Kechar Bouabdellah, Oran University, Algeria</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Samia Bouzefrane, CEDRIC Lab, France</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Lars Braubach, Hamburg University, Germany </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Amine Dhraief, Manouba University, Tunisia</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Roberto Di Pietro, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, France</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Wael El-Medany, University of Bahrain, Bahrain</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Etienne Alain Feukeu, Vaal University of Technology, South Africa</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Antonio Filieri, Imperial College London, England</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Luk Knapen, Hasselt University Belgium</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Prashant Kumar, Surrey University, United Kingdom</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Flavio Lombardi, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Ahmed Nait Sidi Moh, University of Picardie Jules Verne, France</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Cristina Seceleanu, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Khaled Shaaban, Qatar University, Qatar</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Yves Vanrompay, Hasselt University, Belgium</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Yun Zhou, Shaanxi Normal University, China</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>Publicity Chairs</span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Guelma University, Algeria</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Sarmad Ullah Khan, CECOS University, Pakistan</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>International Liaison Chairs</span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Paul Davidsson, Malmo University, Sweden</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> David Taniar, Monash University, Australia</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>Technical Program Committee</span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span></i><a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/#programCommittees" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std";color:#954F72'>http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/#programCommittees</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>Steering Committee Chair and Founder of ANT</span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.55pt'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'> </span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica LT Std"'>Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></td></tr></table></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>