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The 5th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-14)
in conjunction with
The 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT-14)
Hasselt, Belgium
2-5 June, 2014
Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-14/
IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper Submission: January 31, 2014 (Extended)
- Students Symposium: Feb 15, 2014
- Acceptance Notification: March 1, 2014
- Camera-Ready Submission: April 4, 2014
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 www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). Selected p
apers will be invited for publication in special issues of international journals (http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-14/#journalSpecialIssues).
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.
Conference Tracks:
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- Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications
- Automatic Networks and Communications
- Cloud Computing
- Data Management
- Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies
- Internet of Things
- Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications
- Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences
- Multimedia and Social Computing
- Multimodal Interfaces
- Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications
- Smart Environments and Applications
- Systems Security and Privacy
- Systems Software Engineering
- Vehicular Networks and Applications
- General Track
COMMITTEES
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Honorary Chairs
Luc De Schepper, Rector, Hasselt University, Belgium
General Chairs
Geert Wets, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium
Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia
Nahid Shahmehri, IDA - Linkoping University, Sweden
Program Chairs
Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada
Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium
Karim Djouani, South African Institute of Technology, South Africa
Advisory Committee
Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia
Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Edward Blum, University of Southern California, USA
Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia
Workshops Chair
Zahoor Khan, Dalhouise University, Canada
Program Vice Chairs
Nicolas Gaud, UTBM, France
Paul Davidsson, Malmo University, Sweden
Stephane Galland, UTBM, France
Shibo He, Zhejiang University, China
Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy
Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy
Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Stefan Schmid, TU Berlin, Germany
Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK
Habib M. Ammari, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Davy Janssens, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium
Tom Bellemans, Hasselt University, Belgium
Harry Timmermans, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Kris Luyten, iMinds - EDM - Hasselt University, Belgium
Ghassan Bhatti, University of Toulouse, France
Saroja Kanchi, Kettering University, USA
Elena Troubitsyna, bo Akademi University, Finland
Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer-Institut for Computer Graphics IGD, Germany
Dimiter Mulishev, iMinds - DistriNet - KU Leuven, Belgium
Ridha Khedri, MacMaster University, Canada
Yolande Berbers, iMinds – DistriNet – KULeuven, Belgium
Kai Nagel, TU Berlin, Germany
Lyes Khoukhi, University of Troy, France
Naeem Muhammad, KU Leuven, Belgium
International Journals Chair
Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia
Jian Yu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Local Arrangements Chairs
Luk Knapen, IMOB – Hasselt University, Belgium
Edith Donders, Hasselt University, Belgium
Sungjin Cho, Hasselt University, Belgium
Publicity Chairs
Nils Masuch, DAI – TU Berlin, Germany
Weiwei Fang, Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU), China
Nadeem Javaid, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan
International Liaison Chairs
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy
Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK
Steering Committee Chair
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada