<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,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;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif">We kindly invite you to consider submitting a paper to the&nbsp;<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="">IST</span></span>-<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="">AWSN</span></span>&nbsp;<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="">2014</span></span>&nbsp;: 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;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif">2-5 June,&nbsp;<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="">2014</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,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;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif">Symposium Website:&nbsp;</span><u><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="http://www.ist-awsn2014.lissi.fr/" target="_blank">http://www.<span class="">ist</span>-awsn2014.lissi.fr</a></span></u></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif">- Submission deadline: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;February 15,&nbsp;<span class="">2014</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif">- Acceptance Notification:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; March 15,&nbsp;<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="">2014</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif">- Final Paper Submission:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; April 1,&nbsp;<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="">2014</span></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;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif">Call For Papers</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:19.933334350585938px;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif"><span class="">IST</span>-<span class="">AWSN</span>&rsquo;14 will be held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-<span class="">2014</span>)&nbsp;in Hasselt, Belgium, June 2-5,&nbsp;<span class="">2014</span>.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:19.933334350585938px;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif"><br>Recent developments of low-cost, low-power, multifunctional wireless sensors and smart devices have enabled the fast growth of Ad-hoc&nbsp;and Wireless Sensor Network (<span class="">AWSN</span>) applications. AWSNs consist of numerous small battery powered nodes. A combination of the dense&nbsp;deployment of numerous smart sensors, actuators and smart mobiles nodes, AI techniques, and intelligent agents can provide pervasive&nbsp;services, enabling users to satisfy their needs any time any where. Different problems rise at different level from protocol specification and&nbsp;verification, simulation and performance evaluation to distributed intelligent software specification and design.</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:19.933334350585938px;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif">This symposium aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on different aspects of ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks&nbsp;and software agent technology in an effort to highlight the state-of-the-art and discuss the challenges and opportunities to explore new&nbsp;research directions. We strongly welcome submissions that include results which advance the state of the art relating to the theme of the&nbsp;symposium.</span></p>

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<span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:19.933334350585938px;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,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&nbsp;<span class="">AWSN</span><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" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:19.933334350585938px;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif"><br>

</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:19.933334350585938px;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif">Publication</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:19.933334350585938px;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:19.933334350585938px;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif">Only original papers will be considered that have neither been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere, including web publication.&nbsp;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&nbsp;independent reviewers.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:19.933334350585938px;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif"><br>Accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science&nbsp;series (online).&nbsp;Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on&nbsp;<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>&nbsp;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&rsquo; 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&nbsp;international journal special issues.</span></p></div></div>