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--></style></head><body lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> -------------- Call for Papers ----------------------</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> The 5th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2014)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> held in Conjunction with</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> The 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT-14)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> Hasselt, Belgium </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> 2 - 5 June, 20134 </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> Conference Website: <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-14/">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-14/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> ****************************************************************************</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d">IMPORTANT DATES</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">===============</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">- Workshop Proposal: September 10, 2013</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">- Paper Submission: November 8, 2013</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">- Acceptance Notification: January 8, 2014</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">- Students Symposium: Feb 8, 2014</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">- Camera-Ready Submission: Feb 15, 2014</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">ANT-2014 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 <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: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">- 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></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">- 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></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">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, Li</span><span style="color:#1f497d"></span><span style="color:#1f497d">ge (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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">ANT-2014 will be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT, <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/SEIT-14/">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/SEIT-14/</a>).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Conference Tracks:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">=================</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d">- Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">- Automatic Networks and Communications</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">- Cloud Computing</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">- Data Management</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">- Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">- Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">- Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">- Multimedia and Social Computing</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d">- Multimodal Interfaces</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">- Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">- Smart Environments and Applications</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">- Systems Security and Privacy</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">- Systems Software Engineering</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">- Vehicular Networks and Applications</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">- General Track</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">COMMITTEES</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d">=========</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Honorary Chairs</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Luc De Schepper, Rector, Hasselt University, Belgium</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">General Chairs</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Geert Wets, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Program Chairs</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Karim Djouani, South African Institute of Technology, South Africa</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Advisory Committee</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="color:#1f497d">Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d">Edward Blum, University of Southern California, USA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Workshops Chairs</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Zahoor Khan, Dalhouise University, Canada</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Program Vice Chairs</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d">Nicolas Gaud, UTBM, France</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Paul Davidsson, Malmo University, Sweden</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Stephane Galland, UTBM, France</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Shibo He, Zhejiang University, China</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="NL-BE" style="color:#1f497d">Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Habib M. Ammari, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d">Davy Janssens, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Harry Timmermans, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Kris Luyten, iMinds – EDM – Hasselt University, Belgium</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Walid Chainbi, University of Sousse, Tunis</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Joumana Dargham, University Of Balamand, Lebanon</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d">Ghassan Bhatti, University of Toulouse, France</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Saroja Kanchi, Kettering University, USA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer-Institut for Computer Graphics IGD, Germany</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE" style="color:#1f497d">Yolande Berbers, iMinds – DistriNet – KULeuven, Belgium</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Ridha Khedri, MacMaster University, Canada</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Kai Nagel, TU Berlin, Germany</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Lyes Khoukhi, University of Troy, France</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Naeem Muhammad, KU Leuven, Belgium</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">International Journals Chair</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d">Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Jian Yu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Local Arrangements Chairs</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Luk Knapen, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Edith Donders, Hasselt University, Belgium</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Sungjin Cho, Hasselt University, Belgium</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Publicity Chairs</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Nils Masuch, DAI – TU Berlin, Germany</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Weiwei Fang, Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU), China</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Nadeem Javaid, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">International Liaison Chairs</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color:#1f497d">Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Steering Committee</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada (Chair and ANT Founder)</span></p></div></body></html>