[ecoop-info] CfP: ANT 2016 - 7th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies

[Nils Masuch]

                                                       -------------- Call for Papers ----------------------

           The 7th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2016)

                                                                           Madrid, Spain
                                                                         May 23-26, 2016

                                        Conference Website:  http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-16/
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Important Dates
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- Paper Submission Due:              December 30, 2015
- Acceptance Notification:            February 21, 2016
- Camera-Ready Submission:       March 21, 2016

All ANT-2016 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com<http://www.Elsevier.com> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com<http://www.sciencedirect.com>), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com<http://www.scopus.com>) and 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/).

Conference Tracks
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- Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications
- Automatic Networks and Communications
- Big Data and Analytics
- Cloud Computing
- 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 Chair
  Carlos Conde, Rector Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

General Chairs
  Atta Baddi, University of Reading, UK
  Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada
  Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia

Program Chairs
  Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB - Hasselt University, Belgium
  Jesus Fraile Ardanuy, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

Advisory Committee
  Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
  Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia
  Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
  Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
  Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada
  Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
  Timothy Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
  Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
  Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
  Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia

Workshops Chair
  Stephane Galland, UTBM, France

Program Vice Chairs
  Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK
  Kechar Bouabdellah, Oran University, Algeria
  Xianghui Cao, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
  Amine Dhraief, Manouba University, Tunisia
  Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy
  Nicolas Gaud, UTBM, France
  Chaudhary Muhammad Imran, KSU, Saudi Arabia
  Davy Janssens, IMOB - Hasselt University, Belgium
  Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada
  Lyes Khoukhi, University of Troy, France
  Luk Knapen, IMOB - Hasselt University, Belgium
  Flavio Lombardi, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy
  Marco Luetzenberger, DAI-Lab - TU Berlin, Germany
  Philip Moore, Lanzhou University, China
  Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro, University of Paris 1, France
  Davy Preuveneers, KU Leuven, Belgium
  Hassan Raza, Dalhousie University, Canada
  Bryan Riley, Ohio University, USA
  Markus Schatten, University of Zagreb, Croatia
  Yves Vanrompay, Hasselt University, Belgium
  Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer-Institut for Computer Graphics IGD, Germany

International Journals Chair
  Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia
  Xianzhi Wang, the University of Adelaide, Australia

Local Arrangements Chairs
  Jesus Fraile Ardanuy, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
  Roberto Alvaro-Hermana, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

Publicity Chairs
  Nils Masuch, DAI-Lab - TU Berlin, Germany
  Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia
  David Jimenez-Bermejo, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

International Liaison Chairs
  Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada
  Paul Davidsson, Malmo University, Sweden
  Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy
  David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

Technical Program Committee
  http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-16/#programCommittees

Steering Committee Chair and Founder of ANT
  Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada