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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>The 14th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0'>August 19-21, 2019</span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-19/">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-19/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Future Networks and Communications (FNC) research effort will help achieving a major promise of the emerging technologies such as, ubiquitous access to broadband, supporting vital applications in our daily lives such as health, energy consumption, environment transport, entertainment or education. The scope of FNC is the development of energy-efficient future network infrastructures that support the convergence and interoperability of heterogeneous mobile, wired and wireless broadband network technologies as enablers of the future Internet. This includes but not limited to ubiquitous fast broadband access and ultra-high speed end-to-end optical connectivity, supporting open services and innovative ambient applications. Scope also embraces novel and evolutionary approaches to tackle network architectures, taking due consideration of users and societal needs for success.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>----------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>- Workshop Proposal Due: February 15, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>- Paper Submission Due: March 28, 2019</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>- Acceptance Notification: May 25, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>- Final Manuscript Due: June 25, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Publication<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>---------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>All FNC 2019 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 <a href="http://www.Elsevier.com">www.Elsevier.com</a> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com">www.sciencedirect.com</a>), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (<a href="http://www.scopus.com">www.scopus.com</a>) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (<a href="http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/">http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/</a>). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (<a href="http://www.scopus.com">www.scopus.com</a>) and Engineering Village (Ei) (<a href="http://www.engineeringvillage.com">www.engineeringvillage.com</a>). This includes EI Compendex (<a href="http://www.ei.org/compendex">www.ei.org/compendex</a>). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (<a href="http://dblp.uni-trier.de/">http://dblp.uni-trier.de/</a>). 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 following special issues:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>- International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 1.588), by Springer (<a href="http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652">http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>- International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504), (<a href="http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index">http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index</a>) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>- IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 3.654), by IEEE (<a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645">http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>FNC 2019 will be held in conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-18/">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-18/</a>). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>FNC 2019 is co-organized & co-hosted by Acadia and Dalhousie Universities. FNC 2019 will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Halifax is located on the east coast of Canada and is approximately 6-hour flight from London, UK and a 2-hour flight from Toronto, Ontario. Halifax is a vibrant and modern city which is home to multiple academic institutions and where visitors can enjoy a variety of activities and entertainment from whale watching to Jazz festivals to world-class cuisine. Halifax is also home to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic which contains the world largest collection of Titanic artifacts. Nova Scotia is a picturesque province with many National and Provincial parks, and as stated in the Guinness Book of World Records, has the highest tides in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>COMMITTEES:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>----------------------<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><u><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>General Chair<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> Ladislav Hluchy, Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><u><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Program Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB Ð Hasselt University, Belgium<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><u><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Local Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> Ahsan Habib, Dalhousie University, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> Hassan Raza, Dalhousie University, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><u><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>International Journals Chair <o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> StŽphane Galland, UniversitŽ de Technologie de Belfort-MontbŽliard, France<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><u><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Publicity Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> Monika Davidekova, Comenius University, Slovak Republic<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><u><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Advisory Committee<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> Zygmunt J. Haas, Cornell University, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> Philippe Martins, Telecom Paris Tech, France<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> David Taniar, Monash University, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><u><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Technical Program Committee<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-19/#programCommittees">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-19/#programCommittees</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>