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<font size="4" color="#0433ff" class=""><span class=""><i class="">The 15th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (<span class="">ANT</span>) </i></span></font></div>
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<div class=""><font size="4" color="#0433ff" class=""><span class=""><i class="">April 23-25, 2024, Hasselt, Belgium </i></span></font></div>
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<div class=""><font class=""><b class="" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15px;">Important Dates</b></font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;">- Workshops Proposals Due: October 20, 2023</font></div>
<div class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><font class="">- Paper Submission Due:
<b class="">December </b></font><font class=""><b class="">18, 2023</b> </font><span class=""> (</span><font class="" color="#ff2600">Final</font><span class="">)</span></span></div>
<div class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><font class="">- Acceptance Notification: January 1</font><font class="">5, 2024</font></span></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;">- Camera-Ready Submission: February 9, 2024</font></div>
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<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;">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 class="" style="font-style: normal;">- 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 class="" style="font-style: normal;">- 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 class="" style="font-style: normal;">- 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 class="" style="font-style: normal;">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 class=""><b class="" style="font-style: normal;">ANT 2024 will be held in conjunction with the
<font color="#0433ff" class="">7th International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry</font> (<font color="#0433ff" class="">EDI40</font>:
<a href="https://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/edi40-24/" class="">https://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/edi40-24/</a>).</b></font></div>
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<div class=""><font class=""><b class="" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15px;">Conference Tracks</b></font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> - Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> - Big Data and Analytics</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> - Cloud Computing</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> - Context-awareness and Multimodal Interfaces</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> - Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> - Human Computer Interaction</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> - Internet of Things</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> - Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> - Modelling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> - Multimedia and Social Computing</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> - Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> - Smart, Sustainable Cities and Climate Change Management</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> - Smart Environments and Applications</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> - Systems Security and Privacy</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> - Systems Software Engineering</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> - Vehicular Networks and Applications</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> - General Track</font></div>
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<div class=""><font class=""><b class="" style="font-style: normal;">General Chairs</b></font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia </font></div>
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<div class=""><font class=""><b class="" style="font-style: normal;">Program Chairs</b></font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada </font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium</font></div>
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<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Stephane Galland, UTBM, France </font></div>
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<div class=""><font class=""><b class="" style="font-style: normal;">Vice Chairs</b></font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Muhammad Adnan, Hasselt University Belgium</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Manzoor Ahmed, Qingdao University, China</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Akramul Azim, Ontario Tech University, Canada </font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Ayoub Bahnasse, Hassan II University, Morocco</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Samia Bouzefrane, CEDRIC Lab Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France</font></div>
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<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Junsung Choi, Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Robertas Damasevicius, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> David Espes Université de Bretagne Occidentale France</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Antonella Galizia, Principal Scientist, CNR, Italy </font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Mohammad Ghanim, Ministry of Transport, Qatar</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Stefano Guarino, IAC-CNR Rome, Italy</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Faouzi Kammoun, Ecole Superieure Privee d'Ingenierie et de Technologies, Tunis</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Bouabdellah Kechar, Oran 1 Ahmed BenBella University, Algeria</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Flavio Lombardi, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Bacem Mbarek Masaryk University Czech Republic</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Yazan Mualla, UTBM, France </font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Khair Eddin Sabri, The University of Jordan, Jordan</font></div>
<div class=""> Khaled Shaaban, Utah Valley University, USA</div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Kamran Siddique, Xiamen University Malaysia, Malaysia</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Mohamed Tabaa, EMSI, Morocco</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Igor Tchappi, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg</font></div>
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<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Ali Benzerbadj, University of Ain Temouchent Belhadj Bouchaib, Algeria</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Siddardha Kaja, Air Canada, Canada</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Orven E. Llantos, MSU-IIT, Philippines </font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Farhan Ullah, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China</font></div>
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<div class=""><font class=""><b class="" style="font-style: normal;">International Journals Chairs</b></font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia </font></div>
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<div class=""><font class=""><b class="" style="font-style: normal;">Advisory Committee</b></font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Ibad Kureshi, Inlecomm Systems, Belgium</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia</font></div>
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<div class=""><font class=""><b class="" style="font-style: normal;">International Liaison Chairs</b></font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Paul Davidsson, Malmo University, Sweden</font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> David Taniar, Monash University, Australia</font></div>
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<div class=""><font class=""><b class="" style="font-style: normal;">Steering Committee Chair and Founder of ANT</b></font></div>
<div class=""><font class="" style="font-style: normal;"> Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada</font></div>
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