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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal> -------------- Call for Papers ----------------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> The 4th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2013) <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> 25-28 June, 2013<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-13/ <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> ****************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>===============<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Workshop Proposal: October 10, 2012<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Full Paper Submission: December 8, 2012<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Acceptance Notification: February 8, 2013<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Graduate Symposium Abstract: March 8, 2013<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Camera-Ready Submission: March 15, 2013<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ANT-2013 accepted papers will be included 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 (http://www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (http://www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (http://www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (http://www.ei.org/compendex). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, by Springer http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Journal of Computer and System Sciences, by Elsevier http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-computer-and-system-sciences/<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Social Network Analysis and Mining Journal, by Springer http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/13278<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- The Computer Journal, by Oxford http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ANT 2013 will be held in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada. Halifax is located on the far eastern coast of Canada and is approximately a 6-hour flight from London, UK and a 2-hour flight from Toronto, Ontario. Halifax is a vibrant and modern city which is home to multiple academic institutions and where visitors can enjoy a variety of activities and entertainment from whale watching to Jazz festivals to world-class cuisine. Halifax is also home to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic which contains the world largest collection of Titanic artifacts. Nova Scotia is a picturesque province with many National and Provincial parks, and as stated in the Guinness Book of World Records, has the highest tides in the world.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>ANT-2013 will be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/SEIT-13/).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Conference Tracks:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>=================<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Automatic Networks and Communications<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Cloud Computing<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Data Management<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Multimedia and Social Computing<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Multimodal Interfaces<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Smart Environments and Applications <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Systems Security and Privacy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Systems Software Engineering<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Vehicular Networks and Applications<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- General Track<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>COMMITTEES<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>=========<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>General Chairs<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Nick Cercone, York University, Canada<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Program Chairs<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Karim Djouani, South African Institute of Technology, South Africa<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Advisory Committee<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=NL-BE>Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL-BE> </span>Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Workshops Chairs<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, Hasselt University, Belgium<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Weiwei Fang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Program vice Chairs<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer-Institut for Computer Graphics IGD, Germany<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Senol Erdogan, Maltepe University, Turkey<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Irena Mlynkova, Charles University, Czech Republic<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Jiang Li, Howard University, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Davy Janssens, Hasselt University, Belgium<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, Hasselt University, Belgium<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Tom Bellemans, Hasselt University, Belgium<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Keivan Kian-Mehr, University of Western Ontario, Canada<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Mohsen Afsharchi, University of Zanjan, Iran<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Mohyuddin, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Saudi Arabia <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Walid Chainbi, University of Sousse, Tunis<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Nauman Aslam, Northumbria University, UK <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Bessam Abdulrazak, Sherbrooke University, Canada <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Bharat Jayaraman, University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Jayaraj Poroor, Amrita University, India <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Lyes Khoukhi, University of Troy, France<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=NL-BE>Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=NL-BE> </span>Navonil Mustafee, Swansea University, UK <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>International Journals Chairs<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Jing He, Victoria University, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Jian Yu, Swinburne University, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Local Arrangement Chairs<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Janet Light, University of New Brunswick, Canada <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario, Canada<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Bessam Abdulrazak, Sherbrooke University, Canada<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Publicity Chairs<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Agustinus Waluyo, Monash University, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Muhammad Imran, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Wael M El-Medany, University of Bahrain, Bahrain<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>International Liaison Chairs<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Adnan Al-Anbuky, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Steering Committee<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> David Taniar, Monash University, Australia <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>