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The International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2010)



                                26-28 July, 2010

                        Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada



            Conference Website: http://www.acadiau.ca/ant10/home.php



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IMPORTANT DATES

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* Full Paper Submission (EXTENDED):     February 10, 2010

* Acceptance Notification: March 20, 2010

* Camera-Ready Submission: May 01, 2010

* Conference Days: July 26-28, 2010



The International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2010) is a leading international conference which provides an international forum for researchers, developers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to address research challenges and to present and discuss research ideas, developments and experiences related to the ambient systems infrastructure, models, and technologies.

   The general aim of ambient systems is to provide an environment wherein computing devices exist anywhere and everywhere. In such systems mobile and embedded computing devices form ad hoc collaboration using different communication networks (e.g., wireless networks, RFID, etc) in order to share and exchange information and provide services. Ambient systems pose new research challenges due to the open and unreliable nature of the environment and the complexity and heterogeneity of the computing devices and the underlying communication networks. These characteristics challenge traditional techniques and demand new ways of approaching the problems related to the ambient systems.



TOPICS OF INTEREST

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Prospective authors are invited to submit papers to the following research tracks. Details on topics of each track are available at the conference website.



- Ambient-oriented Autonomic Networks and Communications

- Ambient Systems Software Engineering

- Ambient Systems Security and Privacy

- Distributed Ambient Artificial Intelligence

- Emerging Ambient Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies

- Multimodal Interfaces for Ambient Systems

- Service Oriented Computing for Ambient Systems & Applications

- Smart Environments and Applications in Ambient Systems



PUBLICATION

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Papers accepted for the conference will be published in the proceedings of Communications in Computer and Information Science series, Springer. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of:



(1) Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing

      http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652

(2) Journal of Service Oriented Computing and Applications

      http://www.springer.com/computer/communications/journal/11761

(3) Journal of Multiagent and Grid Systems

      http://www.iospress.nl/loadtop/load.php?isbn=15741702

(4) Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

      http://www.springer.com/computer/user+interfaces/journal/779



PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE

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Submitted technical papers must be no longer than 10 pages for full papers and 6 pages for short papers including all figures and references, and must be formatted according to Springer guidelines.

http://www.springer.com/series/7899



COMMITTEES

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General Chairs

  Nick Cercone, York University, Canada

  Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan



Program Chairs

  Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK

  Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

  David Taniar, Monash University, Australia



Advisory Committee

  Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia

  Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada

  Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK

  Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

  Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany

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

  Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy



Program vice Chairs



  Agustinus Waluyo, Institute for Infocom Research, Singapore

  Arantza Aldea, Oxford Brookes University, UK

  Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada

  Jiang Li, Howard University, USA

  Kevin Curran, University of Ulster, Ireland

  Khaled Ali, Ottawa University, Canada

  Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany

  Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

  Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui, The Open University, UK

  Soumaya Cherkaoui, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

  Takahiro HARA, Osaka University, Japan

  Tarek Sheltami, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia

  Tom Lunney, University of Ulster, Ireland

  Tomoya Enokido, Risho University, Japan

  Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia

  Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE





Local Arrangement Committee

  Daniel Silver, Acadia University, Canada

  Darcy Benoit, Acadia University, Canada

  Darrell Crooks, Acadia University, Canada

  Duane Currie, Acadia University, Canada

  Elaine Schofield, Acadia University, Canada

  Karen Wilder, Acadia University, Canada

  Richard Cunningham, Acadia University, Canada



Steering Committee

  Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

  Ismail Khalil, Johannes Kepler University Linz Austria



Awards Chairs

  Mieso Denko, Guelph University, Canada

  Rachid Anane, Coventry University, UK



Publicity Chairs

  Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia

  Jason Gu, Dalhousie University, Canada





Contacts

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  Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK

      Email: m.younas@brookes.ac.uk<mailto:m.younas@brookes.ac.uk>

  Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada

      Email: elhadi.shakshuki@acadiau.ca<mailto:elhadi.shakshuki@acadiau.ca>

  David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

      Email: david.taniar@infotech.monash.edu.au<mailto:david.taniar@infotech.monash.edu.au>