-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [computational.science] CFPs: The 5th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT'14) Datum: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:32:01 -0400 Von: Elhadi Shakshuki elhadi.shakshuki@gmail.com Organisation: "ICCSA" An: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.iccsa.org

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 =============== - 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 papers 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, Lige (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: ================= - 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 =========

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