<div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:center"><font><span style="font-size:10pt">(Our apologies for duplicate copies of this call)</span></font><br><br><br></div>C A LL F O R P A P E R S<br>
</div><div style="text-align:center"><br><br><br> The 3rd International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2012) <br><br> <br><br> 27-29 August, 2012<br>
<br> Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada<br></div><br><br><br><div style="text-align:center"> Conference Website: <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-12/">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-12/</a> <br>
</div><br> ****************************************************************************<br><br><br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br><br>===============<br><br>- Full Paper Submission: February 29, 2012 (Extended) <br>
<br>- Acceptance Notification: April 10, 2012 <br><br>- Camera-Ready Submission: May 10, 2012 <br><br><br>ANT-2012 accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line and CD). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on <a href="http://www.Elsevier.com">www.Elsevier.com</a> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com">http://www.sciencedirect.com</a>), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (<a href="http://www.scopus.com">http://www.scopus.com</a>) and Engineering Village (Ei) (<a href="http://www.engineeringvillage.com">http://www.engineeringvillage.com</a>). This includes EI Compendex (<a href="http://www.ei.org/compendex">http://www.ei.org/compendex</a>). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (<a href="http://dblp.uni-trier.de/">http://dblp.uni-trier.de/</a>). Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: <br>
<br>- Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, by Springer <a href="http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652">http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652</a><br>- Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, by Springer <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/user+interfaces/journal/779">http://www.springer.com/computer/user+interfaces/journal/779</a><br>
- Social Network Analysis and Mining Journal, by Springer <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/13278">http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/13278</a><br>
<br><br><br>ANT-2012 will be held in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS, <a href="http://www.mobiwis.org/2012/">http://www.mobiwis.org/2012/</a>).<br><br><br>Conference Tracks:<br>
<br>=================<br><br>- Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications<br>- Automatic Networks and Communications<br>- Data Management<br>- Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies<br>- Multimedia and Social Computing<br>
- Multimodal Interfaces<br>- Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications <br>- Smart Environments and Applications <br>- Systems Security and Privacy<br>- Systems Software Engineering<br>- Vehicular Networks and Applications<br>
- General Track<br><br><br>COMMITTEES<br>=========<br><br>General Chairs<br> Nick Cercone, York University, Canada<br> Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia <br><br>Program Chairs<br> Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada<br>
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK<br> Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan<br><br>Advisory Committee<br> Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada<br> Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA<br>
Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK<br> Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy<br> Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany<br> Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia<br> Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA<br>
Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan <br><br>Workshops Chairs<br> Senol Erdogan, Maltepe University, Turkey<br> Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany<br><br>Program vice Chairs<br> Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany<br>
Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer-Institut for Computer Graphics IGD, Germany<br> Jiang Li, Howard University, USA<br> Tarek Sheltami, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia<br> Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia<br> Irena Mlynkova, Charles University, Czech Republic<br>
Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia<br> Anis Koubaa, Al-Imam University, Saudi Arabia/CISTER Research Unit, Portugal<br> Keivan Kian-Mehr, University of Western Ontario, Canada<br> Tansel Ozyer, TOBB Econo & Tech University, Turkey<br>
Thomas Grill, University of Salzburg, Austria<br> Mohyuddin, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Saudi Arabia<br> Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE<br> Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada<br>
Abdallah Mhamed, Telecom SudParis, France <br> Wail Mardini, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan<br> Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada<br> Luis Javier Garc’a Villalba, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain<br>
Agustinus Waluyo, Monash University, Australia<br> Bharat Jayaraman, University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA<br> Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada<br> G. Ram Mohana Reddy, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India<br>
Adnan Al-Anbuky, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand<br><br>International Journals Chair<br> Nauman Aslam, Northumbria University, UK<br><br>Local Arrangement Chairs<br> Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario, Canada<br>
Bessam Abdulrazak, Sherbrooke University, Canada<br><br>Publicity Chairs<br> Weiwei Fang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China<br> Djamal Benslimane, Lyon 1 University, France<br> Thais Regina de Moura Braga Silva, Federal University of Vicosa, Brazil<br>
Wael M El-Medany, University of Bahrain, Bahrain<br><br>International Liaison Chairs<br> Karim Djouani, South African Institute of Technology, South African<br> Verdi Marchm, HP Labs Singapore, Singapore<br><br>Awards Chairs<br>
Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait<br> Bernady Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan<br><br>Steering Committee Chair<br> Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada<br><br><br><br></div>