<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:'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;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span class="">We</span> <span class="">kindly</span> <span class="">invite</span> <span class="">you</span> to <span class="">consider</span> <span class="">submitting</span> a <span class="">paper</span> to the <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> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="">2014</span></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;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;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)"><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:'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;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;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.<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:'Times New Roman',serif">- Submission deadline: February 15, <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:'Times New Roman',serif">- Acceptance Notification: March 15, <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:'Times New Roman',serif">- Final <span class="">Paper</span> Submission: April 1, <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:'Times New Roman',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:'Times New Roman',serif"><span class="">IST</span>-<span class="">AWSN</span>’14 will be held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-<span class="">2014</span>) in Hasselt, Belgium, June 2-5, <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:'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 (<span class="">AWSN</span>) 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>
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<span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:19.933334350585938px;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. <span class="">We</span> strongly welcome submissions that include results which advance the state of the art relating to the theme of the symposium.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:19.933334350585938px;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 <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:'Times New Roman',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:'Times New Roman',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:'Times New Roman',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:'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 <span class="">paper</span> is limited to 6 pages. All papers will be reviewed by at least two 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:'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. <span class="">You</span> 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></div></div>