[ecoop-info] ANT (CfPs FINAL): 9th Intl. Conf. on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies, Porto, Portugal (Final Submission Date is January 13, 2018: FIRM)

[Stéphane GALLAND]

Call for Papers

*/The 9th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and 
Technologies (ANT-2018) /*

Porto, Portugal, May 8-11, 2018

*//*

/Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18//

/Workshops: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/#workshop/

/Tutorials: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/#tutorial/

*IMPORTANT DATES*

- Paper Submission Due:            January 13, 2018 (Final)

- Acceptance Notification:          February 9, 2018

- Camera-Ready Submission:     March 9, 2018

*About*

ANT 2018 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the 
open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer 
Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com 
<http://www.elsevier.com/> and on Elsevier content platform 
ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com <http://www.sciencedirect.com/>), 
and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be 
indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com <http://www.scopus.com/>) and by 
Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index 
(http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). All 
papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com 
<http://www.scopus.com/>) and Engineering Village (Ei) 
(www.engineeringvillage.com <http://www.engineeringvillage.com/>). This 
includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex 
<http://www.ei.org/compendex>). Moreover, all accepted papers will be 
indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). 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. Selected papers will be invited 
for publication, in the special issues of:

- Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing  (IF: 1.588), 
by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652)

- Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (IF: 2.395), by Springer 
(http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779)

- IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 3.654), by IEEE 
(http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645)

- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IF: 3.724), 
by IEEE (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6979 
<http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645>)

ANT 2018 will be held in Porto, Portugal. Porto is the second-largest 
city in Portugal after Lisbon and one of the major urban areas of the 
Iberian Peninsula. Porto is also called the Invicta because during the 
19th century Portuguese civil war, the city withstood a siege of over a 
year.The urban area of Porto, which extends beyond the administrative 
limits of the city, has a population of 2.1 million in an area of 389 
km2 (150 sq mi), making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. It 
is recognized as a gamma- level global city by the Globalization and 
World Cities (GaWC) Study Group, the only Portuguese city besides Lisbon 
to be recognised as a global city.

Located along the Douro river estuary in Northern Portugal, Porto is one 
of the oldest European centres, and its historical core was proclaimed a 
World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996. The western part of its urban 
area extends to the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean. Its settlement 
dates back many centuries, when it was an outpost of the Roman Empire. 
One of Portugal's internationally famous exports, port wine, is named 
after Porto, since the metropolitan area, and in particular the cellars 
of Vila Nova de Gaia, were responsible for the packaging, transport and 
export of the fortified wine. In 2014 and 2017, Porto was elected The 
Best European Destination by the Best European Destinations Agency.

ANT-2018 will be held in conjunction with the 8th International 
Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT, 
_http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-18/_)

**

*Conference Tracks*
- Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications

- Big Data and Analytics

- Cloud Computing

- Context-awareness and Multimodal Interfaces

- Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies

- Human Computer Interaction

- Internet of Things

- Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications

- Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences

- Multimedia and Social Computing

- Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications

- Smart, Sustainable Cities and Climate Change Management

- Smart Environments and Applications

- Systems Security and Privacy

- Systems Software Engineering

- Vehicular Networks and Applications

- General Track

*Committees*
/General Chairs/

   Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada

   Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia

/Program Chairs/

   Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA

   Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium

/Local Chairs/

   Ana C. R. Paiva, University of Porto, Portugal

   João C. P. Faria, University of Porto, Portugal

/Workshops Chair/

   Stephane Galland, UTBM, France Program

/Advisory Committee/

   Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada

   Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia

   Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

   Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK

   Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada

   Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy

   Timothy Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan

   Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands

   Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany

   Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

   Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia

/International Journals Chair/

   Javier Jesus Sanchez Medina, ULPGC, Spain

/Vice Chairs/

   Boulmakoul Azedine, Hassan II University, Morocco

   Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK

   Kechar Bouabdellah, Oran University, Algeria

   Samia Bouzefrane, CEDRIC Lab, France

   Lars Braubach, Hamburg University, Germany

   Martine Collard, University of the French West Indies, France

   Amine Dhraief, Manouba University, Tunisia

   Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy

   Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, France

   Wael El-Medany, University of Bahrain, Bahrain

   Etienne Alain Feukeu, Vaal University of Technology, South Africa

   Antonio Filieri, Imperial College London, England

   Luk Knapen, Hasselt University Belgium

   Prashant Kumar, Surrey University, United Kingdom

   Flavio Lombardi, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy

   Ahmed Nait Sidi Moh, University of Picardie Jules Verne, France

   Cristina Seceleanu, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden

   Khaled Shaaban, Qatar University, Qatar

   Yves Vanrompay, Hasselt University, Belgium

   Yun Zhou, Shaanxi Normal University, China

/Publicity Chairs/

   Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium

   Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Guelma University, Algeria

   Sarmad Ullah Khan, CECOS University, Pakistan

/International Liaison Chairs/

   Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada

   Paul Davidsson, Malmo University, Sweden

   Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy

   David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

/Technical Program Committee/

http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/#programCommittees

/Steering Committee Chair and Founder of ANT/

   Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada