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--></style></head><body lang="EN-GB" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"> -------------- Call for Papers ----------------------</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> The 5th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2014)</p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> in Conjunction with</p><p class="MsoNormal"> The 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT-14)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> Hasselt, Belgium </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> 2-5 June, 2014 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> Conference Website: <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-14/">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-14/</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> ****************************************************************************</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">
IMPORTANT DATES</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">===============</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">- Workshop Proposal: November 1, 2013</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">
- Paper Submission: January 4, 2014</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">- Students Symposium: Feb 15, 2014</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">- Acceptance Notification: March 1, 2014</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">- Camera-Ready Submission: April 4, 2014</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">All ANT-2014 accepted papers will be printed 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">www.sciencedirect.com</a>), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index <a href="http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/">http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/</a>. 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 (<a href="http://dblp.uni-trier.de/)">http://dblp.uni-trier.de/)</a>.. Selected papers will be invited for publication in special issues of international journals.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">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, Lige (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.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Conference Tracks:</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">=================</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">- Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">- Automatic Networks and Communications</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">- Cloud Computing</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">- Data Management</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">- Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">- Internet of Things</p><p class="MsoNormal">- Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">- Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">- Multimedia and Social Computing</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">
- Multimodal Interfaces</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">- Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">- Smart Environments and Applications</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">- Systems Security and Privacy</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">- Systems Software Engineering</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">- Vehicular Networks and Applications</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">COMMITTEES</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">=========</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Honorary Chairs</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Luc De Schepper, Rector, Hasselt University, Belgium</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">General Chairs</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Geert Wets, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Nahid Shahmehri, IDA - Linkoping University, Sweden</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Program Chairs</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">
Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada</p><p class="MsoNormal"> Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Karim Djouani, South African Institute of Technology, South Africa</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Advisory Committee</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="NL-BE">Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE"> </span>Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="NL-BE">Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE"> </span>Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan</p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> Edward Blum, University of Southern California, USA</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Workshops Chairs</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Zahoor Khan, Dalhouise University, Canada</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal">Program Vice Chairs</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Nicolas Gaud, UTBM, France</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Paul Davidsson, Malmo University, Sweden</p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> Stephane Galland, UTBM, France</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Shibo He, Zhejiang University, China</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy </p><p class="MsoNormal"> Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China</p><p class="MsoNormal"> Stefan Schmid, TU Berlin, Germany </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Habib M. Ammari, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Davy Janssens, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Tom Bellemans, Hasselt University, Belgium</p><p class="MsoNormal"> Harry Timmermans, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Kris Luyten, iMinds - EDM - Hasselt University, Belgium</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Ghassan Bhatti, University of Toulouse, France</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Saroja Kanchi, Kettering University, USA</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">
Elena Troubitsyna, bo Akademi University, Finland</p><p class="MsoNormal"> Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer-Institut for Computer Graphics IGD, Germany</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Dimiter Mulishev, iMinds - DistriNet - KU Leuven, Belgium</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Ridha Khedri, MacMaster University, Canada</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Yolande Berbers, iMinds – DistriNet – KULeuven, Belgium</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">
Kai Nagel, TU Berlin, Germany</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Lyes Khoukhi, University of Troy, France</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <span lang="NL-BE">Naeem Muhammad, KU Leuven, Belgium</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="NL-BE"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">International Journals Chair</p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Jian Yu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Local Arrangements Chairs</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Luk Knapen, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">
Edith Donders, Hasselt University, Belgium</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Sungjin Cho, Hasselt University, Belgium</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">
Publicity Chairs</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Nils Masuch, DAI – TU Berlin, Germany</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Weiwei Fang, Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU), China</p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> Nadeem Javaid, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">International Liaison Chairs</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">
Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">
Steering Committee Chair</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"> Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada</p></div></body></html>