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The 12th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT)
<div style="margin: 0px">Warsaw, Poland </div>
<div style="margin: 0px">March 23-26, 2021</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-21/</div>
<div style="margin: 0px">Workshops: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-21/#workshop</div>
<div style="margin: 0px">Tutorials: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-21/#tutorial</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(200, 38, 19)"><b>Important Dates</b></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> - Workshops Proposals Due: October 1, 2020</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> - Paper Submission Due: November 1, 2020</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> - Acceptance Notification: December 30, 2020</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> - Camera-Ready Submission: January 27, 2021</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">ANT 2021 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 and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect
(www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (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) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (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:</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px"> - International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 4.594), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652)</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> - 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/)</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> - International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking (IF: 3.030) (Pending), Elsevier (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-networks)</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> - International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.524), by Computing and Informatics (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index)</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">ANT 2021 will be held in Warsaw, Poland. Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula River in east-central Poland and its population is officially estimated at 1.770 million residents within
a greater metropolitan area of 3.1 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 8th most-populous capital city in the European Union. The city limits cover 516.9 square kilometres (199.6 sq mi), while the metropolitan area covers 6,100.43 square kilometres (2,355.39
sq mi). Warsaw is an alpha global city, a major international tourist destination, and a significant cultural, political and economic hub. Its historical Old Town was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">ANT 2021 will be held in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry 4.0 (EDI40, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/edi40-21/).</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Conference Tracks</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> - Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> - Big Data and Analytics</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> - Cloud Computing</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> - Context-awareness and Multimodal Interfaces</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> - Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> - Human Computer Interaction</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> - Internet of Things</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> - Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> - Modelling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> - Multimedia and Social Computing</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> - Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> - Smart, Sustainable Cities and Climate Change Management</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> - Smart Environments and Applications</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> - Systems Security and Privacy</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> - Systems Software Engineering</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> - Vehicular Networks and Applications</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> - General Track</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Committees</div>
<div style="margin: 0px">General Chairs</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Program Chairs</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Local Chair</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Nuno Varandas, F6S (Where Founders Grow Together), Portugal</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Workshops Chair</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Stephane Galland, UTBM, France Program</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Vice Chairs</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Omar Alam, Trent University, Canada</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Azedine Boulmakoul, Hassan II University, Morocco</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Samia Bouzefrane, CEDRIC Lab Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Stefano Cresci, National Research Council, Italy</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Robertas Damasevicius, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Roberto Di Pietro, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Silvana Di Sabatino, University of Bologna, Italy</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Elsayed Mohamed Abdelkareem Elalfy, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Jason Jaskolka, Carleton University, Canada</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Faouzi Kammoun, Ecole Supérieure Privée d'Ingénierie et de Technologies, Tunis</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Bouabdellah Kechar, Oran 1 Ahmed BenBella University, Algeria</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Flavio Lombardi, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Vuk Marojevic, Mississippi State University, USA</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Ahmed Nait Sidi Moh, University of Picardie Jules Verne, France</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Aneta Poniszewska-Marańda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Cristina Seceleanu, Mälardalen University, Sweden</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Miguel Sepulcre, Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Spain</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Khaled Shaaban, University of Central Florida, USA</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Javid Taheri, Karlstad University, Sweden</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Publicity Chairs</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Hana Gharrad, Hasselt University, Belgium</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Sony Guntuka, Acadia University, Canada</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Aneta Poniszewska-Marańda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Josep-Maria Salanova, CERTH, Greece</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">International Journals Chair</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Advisory Committee</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Ibad Kureshi, Inlecomm Systems, Belgium</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">International Liaison Chairs</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> Paul Davidsson, Malmo University, Sweden</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> David Taniar, Monash University, Australia</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Technical Program Committee</div>
<div style="margin: 0px"> http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-21/#programCommittees</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px">Steering Committee Chair and Founder of ANT</div>
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></div>
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