-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [computational.science] CfP: The 4th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2013) Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:26:29 +1100 From: Agustinus Borgy Waluyo abwaluyo@gmail.com Organization: "ICCSA" To: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.iccsa.org

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The 4th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2013)

25-28 June, 2013 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-13/

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IMPORTANT DATES

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- Workshop Proposal: October 10, 2012 - Full Paper Submission: December 8, 2012 - Acceptance Notification: February 8, 2013 - Graduate Symposium Abstract: March 8, 2013 - Camera-Ready Submission: March 15, 2013

ANT-2013 accepted papers will be included 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.comand on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect ( http://www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (http://www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (http://www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (http://www.ei.org/compendex). 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.

ANT 2013 will be held in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada. Halifax is located on the far eastern coast of Canada and is approximately a 6-hour flight from London, UK and a 2-hour flight from Toronto, Ontario. Halifax is a vibrant and modern city which is home to multiple academic institutions and where visitors can enjoy a variety of activities and entertainment from whale watching to Jazz festivals to world-class cuisine. Halifax is also home to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic which contains the world largest collection of Titanic artifacts. Nova Scotia is a picturesque province with many National and Provincial parks, and as stated in the Guinness Book of World Records, has the highest tides in the world.

ANT-2013 will be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/SEIT-13/).

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 - 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 =========

General Chairs Nick Cercone, York University, Canada Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia

Program Chairs Karim Djouani, South African Institute of Technology, South Africa Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA

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

Workshops Chairs Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, Hasselt University, Belgium Weiwei Fang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China

Program vice Chairs Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer-Institut for Computer Graphics IGD, Germany Senol Erdogan, Maltepe University, Turkey Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia Irena Mlynkova, Charles University, Czech Republic Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA Jiang Li, Howard University, USA Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Davy Janssens, Hasselt University, Belgium

Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, Hasselt University, Belgium

Tom Bellemans, Hasselt University, Belgium

Keivan Kian-Mehr, University of Western Ontario, Canada Mohsen Afsharchi, University of Zanjan, Iran Mohyuddin, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Saudi Arabia Walid Chainbi, University of Sousse, Tunis Nauman Aslam, Northumbria University, UK Bessam Abdulrazak, Sherbrooke University, Canada Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada Bharat Jayaraman, University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA Jayaraj Poroor, Amrita University, India Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada Lyes Khoukhi, University of Troy, France Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK Navonil Mustafee, Swansea University, UK

International Journals Chairs Jing He, Victoria University, Australia Jian Yu, Swinburne University, Australia

Local Arrangement Chairs Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada Janet Light, University of New Brunswick, Canada Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario, Canada Bessam Abdulrazak, Sherbrooke University, Canada

Publicity Chairs Agustinus Waluyo, Monash University, Australia Muhammad Imran, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia Wael M El-Medany, University of Bahrain, Bahrain

International Liaison Chairs Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany Adnan Al-Anbuky, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

Steering Committee Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA