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

Mon Jan 13 08:34:16 CET 2014

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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, Lige  
(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
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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
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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
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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
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Zahoor Khan, Dalhouise University, CanadaProgram

Vice Chairs
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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,
BelgiumInternational 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
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Nils Masuch, DAI ? TU Berlin, Germany
Weiwei Fang, Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU), China
Nadeem Javaid, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan

International Liaison Chairs
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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
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Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

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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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