<div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center">C A LL F O R P A P E R S<br></div>
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The 3rd International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2012)<br></div>
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27-29 August, 2012<br>
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada<br><br>
Website: <a href="https://webmail.uob.edu.bh/owa/redir.aspx?C=e6e8871da9994a6b89a037ffea339d12&URL=http%3a%2f%2fcs-conferences.acadiau.ca%2fant-12%2f" target="_blank">
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-12/</a><br>
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IMPORTANT DATES<br>
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- Full Paper Submission: March 12, 2012 (<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff0002">Final</font>)<br>
- Graduate Symposium Abstract: March 12, 2012 <br>
- Acceptance Notification: April 10, 2012<br>
- Camera-Ready Submission: May 10, 2012<br>
- Workshops: <a href="https://webmail.uob.edu.bh/owa/redir.aspx?C=e6e8871da9994a6b89a037ffea339d12&URL=http%3a%2f%2fcs-conferences.acadiau.ca%2fant-12%2f%23workshop_approved" target="_blank">
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-12/#workshop_approved</a> <br>
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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="https://webmail.uob.edu.bh/owa/redir.aspx?C=e6e8871da9994a6b89a037ffea339d12&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.Elsevier.com" target="_blank">
www.Elsevier.com</a> <<a href="https://webmail.uob.edu.bh/owa/redir.aspx?C=e6e8871da9994a6b89a037ffea339d12&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.elsevier.com%2f" target="_blank">http://www.elsevier.com/</a>> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (<a href="https://webmail.uob.edu.bh/owa/redir.aspx?C=e6e8871da9994a6b89a037ffea339d12&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.sciencedirect.com" target="_blank">http://www.sciencedirect.com</a>),
and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (<a href="https://webmail.uob.edu.bh/owa/redir.aspx?C=e6e8871da9994a6b89a037ffea339d12&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.scopus.com" target="_blank">http://www.scopus.com</a>) and Engineering Village (Ei) (<a href="https://webmail.uob.edu.bh/owa/redir.aspx?C=e6e8871da9994a6b89a037ffea339d12&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.engineeringvillage.com" target="_blank">http://www.engineeringvillage.com</a>).
This includes EI Compendex (<a href="https://webmail.uob.edu.bh/owa/redir.aspx?C=e6e8871da9994a6b89a037ffea339d12&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ei.org%2fcompendex" target="_blank">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="https://webmail.uob.edu.bh/owa/redir.aspx?C=e6e8871da9994a6b89a037ffea339d12&URL=http%3a%2f%2fdblp.uni-trier.de%2f" target="_blank">http://dblp.uni-trier.de/</a>). Selected papers will be invited for publication in special issues of
international journals.<br>
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Conference Tracks:<br>
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- 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>
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COMMITTEES<br>
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General Chairs<br>
Nick Cercone, York University, Canada<br>
Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia<br>
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Program Chairs<br>
Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada<br>
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK<br>
Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan<br>
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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>
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Workshops Chairs<br>
Senol Erdogan, Maltepe University, Turkey<br>
Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany<br>
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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抋 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>
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International Journals Chair<br>
Nauman Aslam, Northumbria University, UK<br>
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Local Arrangement Chairs<br>
Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario, Canada<br>
Bessam Abdulrazak, Sherbrooke University, Canada<br>
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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>
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International Liaison Chairs<br>
Karim Djouani, South African Institute of Technology, South African<br>
Verdi Marchm, HP Labs Singapore, Singapore<br>
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Awards Chairs<br>
Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait<br>
Bernady Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan<br>
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Steering Committee Chair<br>
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada<br>
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