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<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b class="">Conference</b>: The 15th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (<b class="">ANT</b>) </font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b class="">Location</b>: Hasselt, Belgium </font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b class="">Date</b>: April 23-25, 2024</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b class="">Conference Website</b>: <span class=""><a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/" class="">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/</a>ant-24/ </span></font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b class="">Workshops</b>: <span class="">
<a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-" class="">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-</a>24/#workshop</span></font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b class="">Important Dates</b></font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class="">- Workshops Proposals Due: October 20, 2023</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class="">- Paper Submission Due: November 20, 2023</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class="">- Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2024</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class="">- Camera-Ready Submission: February 9, 2024</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Times" class="">ANT 2024 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/" class="">www.Elsevier.com</a> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/" class="">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/" class="">www.scopus.com</a>) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (<a href="http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/" class="">http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/</a>).
All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (<a href="http://www.scopus.com/" class="">www.scopus.com</a>) and Engineering Village (Ei) (<a href="http://www.engineeringvillage.com/" class="">www.engineeringvillage.com</a>). This includes EI Compendex
(<a href="http://www.ei.org/compendex" class="">www.ei.org/compendex</a>). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (<a href="http://dblp.uni-trier.de/" class="">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 special issues of: </font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Times" class="">- International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 4.594), by Springer (<a href="http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652" class="">http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652</a>)</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class="">- International Journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (IF:3.006), Springer (<a href="https://www.springer.com/journal/779" class="">https://www.springer.com/journal/779</a>) </font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class="">- International Journal on Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice (IF: 3.992), by Elsevier (<a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice/" class="">https://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice/</a>)</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Times" class="">ANT 2024 will be held in Hasselt, Belgium. ANT 2024 is co-organized & co-hosted by the Hasselt University, Belgium. Since 1973 Hasselt University is located on the Campus Diepenbeek, which occupies an attractive 150
acre site in the middle of Limburg's green belt. It is 2 kms west of the town centre of Diepenbeek, a residential town of 17.717 inhabitants, and 4 kms east of Hasselt which has a population of about 69.529 and is the administrative and commercial centre of
the province. Brussels is 90 kms away (to the South-West), Antwerp lies 90 kms to the West, Liège (in the French-speaking part of Belgium) 45 kms to the South, Maastricht (in the Netherlands) 25 kms to the East, Aachen (in Germany) 60 kms to the South-East.</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b class="">ANT 2024 will be held in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry (EDI40).</b></font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b class="">Conference Tracks</b></font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> - Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> - Big Data and Analytics</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> - Cloud Computing</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> - Context-awareness and Multimodal Interfaces</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> - Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> - Human Computer Interaction</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> - Internet of Things</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> - Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> - Modelling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> - Multimedia and Social Computing</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> - Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> - Smart, Sustainable Cities and Climate Change Management</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> - Smart Environments and Applications</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> - Systems Security and Privacy</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> - Systems Software Engineering</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> - Vehicular Networks and Applications</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> - General Track</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b class="">General Chairs</b></font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia </font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b class="">Program Chairs</b></font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada </font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b class="">Workshops' Chair</b></font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Stephane Galland, UTBM, France </font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b class="">Vice Chairs</b></font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Muhammad Adnan, Hasselt University Belgium</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Manzoor Ahmed, Qingdao University, China</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Akramul Azim, Ontario Tech University, Canada </font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Ayoub Bahnasse, Hassan II University, Morocco</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Samia Bouzefrane, CEDRIC Lab Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Junsung Choi, Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Robertas Damasevicius, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Antonella Galizia, Principal Scientist, CNR, Italy </font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Mohammad Ghanim, Ministry of Transport, Qatar</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Stefano Guarino, IAC-CNR Rome, Italy</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Faouzi Kammoun, Ecole Superieure Privee d'Ingenierie et de Technologies, Tunis</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Bouabdellah Kechar, Oran 1 Ahmed BenBella University, Algeria</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Flavio Lombardi, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Yazan Mualla, UTBM, France </font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Khair Eddin Sabri, The University of Jordan, Jordan</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Cristina Seceleanu, Malardalen University, Sweden</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Khaled Shaaban, Utah Valley University, USA</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Kamran Siddique, Xiamen University Malaysia, Malaysia</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Mohamed Tabaa, EMSI, Morocco</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Igor Tchappi, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b class="">Technical Program Committee</b></font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b class="">Publicity Chairs</b></font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Ali Benzerbadj, University of Ain Temouchent Belhadj Bouchaib, Algeria</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Siddardha Kaja, Air Canada, Canada</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Orven E. Llantos, MSU-IIT, Philippines </font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Farhan Ullah, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b class="">International Journals Chairs</b></font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia </font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b class="">Advisory Committee</b></font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Ibad Kureshi, Inlecomm Systems, Belgium</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b class="">International Liaison Chairs</b></font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Paul Davidsson, Malmo University, Sweden</font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> David Taniar, Monash University, Australia</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""><b class="">Steering Committee Chair and Founder of ANT</b></font></div>
<div class=""><font face="Times" class=""> Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada </font></div>
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