<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Dear colleagues,</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">We kindly invite you to consider submitting a paper to the <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">IST</span>-<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">AWSN</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">2014</span> : 9th International Symposium on
Intelligent Techniques for Ad hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks, and/or forward
to the appropriate groups.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">ist</span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">-<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">awsn</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">2014</span> :
9th International Symposium on Intelligent Techniques for Ad hoc and Wireless
Sensor Networks</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">2-5 June, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">2014</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Hasselt, Belgium</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Symposium Website: </span><u><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="http://www.ist-awsn2014.lissi.fr" target="_blank">http://www.ist-awsn2014.lissi.fr</a></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">- Submission deadline: January 15, 2014</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">- Acceptance Notification: March
15, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">2014</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">- Final Paper Submission: April
1, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">2014</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Call For Papers</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">IST-AWSN’14 will be held in conjunction with the 5th
International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies
(ANT-2014) in Hasselt, Belgium, June 2-5, 2014.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br>
Recent developments of low-cost, low-power, multifunctional wireless sensors
and smart devices have enabled the fast growth of Ad-hoc and Wireless
Sensor Network (AWSN) applications. AWSNs consist of numerous small battery
powered nodes. A combination of the dense deployment of numerous smart
sensors, actuators and smart mobiles nodes, AI techniques, and intelligent
agents can provide pervasive services, enabling users to satisfy their
needs any time any where. Different problems rise at different level from
protocol specification and verification, simulation and performance
evaluation to distributed intelligent software specification and design.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">This symposium aims to bring together researchers
and practitioners working on different aspects of ad-hoc and wireless sensor
networks and software agent technology in an effort to highlight the
state-of-the-art and discuss the challenges and opportunities to explore
new research directions. We strongly welcome submissions that include
results which advance the state of the art relating to the theme of
the symposium.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">The main topics to be
addressed include (but not limited to):<br>
- Self-organization of AWSNs<br>
- Routing protocols for AWSNs<br>
- Mobile Peer-to-Peer systems for AWSNs<br>
- Adaptive agents in AWSN<br>
- Security and trust in AWSNs<br>
- Agent-based architectures and middleware for AWSNs<br>
- Agents design issues dealing with reliability, efficiency, and fault tolerance<br>
- Context and situation awareness<br>
- Distributed management systems for AWSNs<br>
- Future Internet of Things<br>
- Intelligent query and data dissemination<br>
- Intelligent systems for AWSNs<br>
- Simulation Tools and Methods<br>
- M2M communication protocols for sensors networks<br>
- Power management and energy-efficient protocols<br>
- QoS, performance evaluation and simulation<br>
- Sensors and actuators infrastructures for ubiquitous robotics applications<br>
- Knowledge Modeling and reasoning with Uncertainty</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Publication</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Only original papers will be considered that have
neither been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere, including web
publication. All submissions will be handled electronically. The length of
the paper is limited to 6 pages. All papers will be reviewed by at least
two independent reviewers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br>
Accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by
Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series
(online). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on <a href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/procedia-computer-science" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(248,129,0);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">www.Elsevier.com</span></a> and
on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18770509" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(248,129,0);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">www.sciencedirect.com</span></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/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(248,129,0);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/</span></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/db/journals/procedia/procedia5.html#ShakshukiY11" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(248,129,0);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">http://dblp.uni-trier.de/</span></a>).<br>
Authors of high quality papers presented in the symposium will be invited to
submit extended version of their papers for publication in international
journal special issues.</span></p>
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