[ecoop-info] CFP: 5th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2014)-- Belgium

[Dr. Nadeem Javaid]

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            The 5th International Conference on Ambient Systems,  
Networks and Technologies (ANT-2014)


                                                                        
  in Conjunction with
                The 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy  
Information Technology (SEIT-14)


                                                                        
    Hasselt, Belgium

2-5 June, 2014



Conference Website:  http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-14/

              
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IMPORTANT DATES

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- Workshop Proposal:                   November 1, 2013

- Paper Submission:                      January 4, 2014

- Students Symposium:                 Feb 15, 2014

- Acceptance Notification:             March 1, 2014

- Camera-Ready Submission:        April 4, 2014



All ANT-2014 accepted papers will be printed in the conference  
proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia  
Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is  
hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform  
ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available  
worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Thomson  
Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index  
http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. 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. All  
accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP  
(http://dblp.uni-trier.de/).. Selected papers will be invited for  
publication in special issues of international journals.


ANT 2014 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, Lige  
(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.


Conference Tracks:

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- Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications

- Automatic Networks and Communications

- Cloud Computing

- Data Management

- Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies

- Internet of Things
- Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications

- Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences

- Multimedia and Social Computing

- Multimodal Interfaces

- Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications

- Smart Environments and Applications

- Systems Security and Privacy

- Systems Software Engineering

- Vehicular Networks and Applications

- General Track



COMMITTEES

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Honorary Chairs

   Luc De Schepper, Rector, Hasselt University, Belgium



General Chairs

   Geert Wets, IMOB ? Hasselt University, Belgium

   Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia

   Nahid Shahmehri, IDA - Linkoping University, Sweden


Program Chairs

   Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada
   Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB ? Hasselt University, Belgium

   Karim Djouani, South African Institute of Technology, South Africa


Advisory Committee

   Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada

   Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

   Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK

   Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy

   Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada

   Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany

   Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia

   Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

   Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan

   Edward Blum, University of Southern California, USA

   Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia



Workshops Chairs

   Zahoor Khan, Dalhouise University, Canada



Program Vice Chairs

   Nicolas Gaud, UTBM, France

   Paul Davidsson, Malmo University, Sweden

   Stephane Galland, UTBM, France

   Shibo He, Zhejiang University, China

   Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy

   Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy
   Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
   Stefan Schmid, TU Berlin, Germany
   Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK

   Habib M. Ammari, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA

   Davy Janssens, IMOB ? Hasselt University, Belgium

   Tom Bellemans, Hasselt University, Belgium
   Harry Timmermans, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands

   Kris Luyten, iMinds - EDM - Hasselt University, Belgium

   Ghassan Bhatti, University of Toulouse, France

   Saroja Kanchi, Kettering University, USA

   Elena Troubitsyna, bo Akademi University, Finland
   Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer-Institut for Computer Graphics IGD, Germany

   Dimiter Mulishev, iMinds - DistriNet - KU Leuven, Belgium
   Ridha Khedri, MacMaster University, Canada

   Yolande Berbers, iMinds ? DistriNet ? KULeuven, Belgium

   Kai Nagel, TU Berlin, Germany

   Lyes Khoukhi, University of Troy, France

   Naeem Muhammad, KU Leuven, Belgium



International Journals Chair

   Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia

   Jian Yu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand



Local Arrangements Chairs

   Luk Knapen, IMOB ? Hasselt University, Belgium

   Edith Donders, Hasselt University, Belgium

   Sungjin Cho, Hasselt University, Belgium



Publicity Chairs

   Nils Masuch, DAI ? TU Berlin, Germany

   Weiwei Fang, Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU), China

   Nadeem Javaid, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan



International Liaison Chairs

   Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK

   Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy

   Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait

   Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK



Steering Committee Chair

   Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada




Best regards,
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Nadeem Javaid, Ph.D. (University of Paris-Est, France),
Assistant Professor/Associate Director,
Center for Advanced Studies in Telecommunications (CAST),
COMSATS Institute of IT, Park Road, Chak-Shahzad, 44000, Islamabad, Pakistan.
nadeemjavaid at comsats.edu.pk/@ieee.org/@yahoo.com
Office:+92519049323, Mobile:+923005792728
http://www.njavaid.com
http://ww3.comsats.edu.pk/faculty/FacultyDetails.aspx?Uid=1211
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