-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [computational.science] The 3rd Intl Conf. on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2012) - Niagara Falls, Canada Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:32:54 +0000 From: Elhadi Shakshuki elhadi.shakshuki@acadiau.ca Organization: "ICCSA" To: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.iccsa.org

C A LL F O R P A P E R S

The 3rd International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2012)

27-29 August, 2012 Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-12/ ****************************************************************************

IMPORTANT DATES =============== - Full Paper Submission: February 10, 2012 - Acceptance Notification: April 10, 2012 - Camera-Ready Submission: May 10, 2012 - Workshops Proposals: December 1, 2011 (http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-12/#workshop)

ANT-2012 accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line and CD). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and 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-2012 will be held in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS, http://www.mobiwis.org/2012/).

Conference Tracks: ================== - Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications - Automatic Networks and Communications - Data Management - Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies - 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 Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan

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 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 Senol Erdogan, Maltepe University, Turkey Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany

Program vice Chairs Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer-Institut for Computer Graphics IGD, Germany Jiang Li, Howard University, USA Tarek Sheltami, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia Irena Mlynkova, Charles University, Czech Republic Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia Anis Koubaa, Al-Imam University, Saudi Arabia/CISTER Research Unit, Portugal Keivan Kian-Mehr, University of Western Ontario, Canada Tansel Ozyer, TOBB Econo& Tech University, Turkey Thomas Grill, University of Salzburg, Austria Mohyuddin, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Saudi Arabia Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada Abdallah Mhamed, Telecom SudParis, France Wail Mardini, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada Luis Javier García Villalba, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Agustinus Waluyo, Monash University, Australia Bharat Jayaraman, University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada G. Ram Mohana Reddy, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India Adnan Al-Anbuky, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

International Journals Chair Nauman Aslam, Northumbria University, UK

Local Arrangement Chairs Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario, Canada Bessam Abdulrazak, Sherbrooke University, Canada

Publicity Chairs Weiwei Fang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China Djamal Benslimane, Lyon 1 University, France Thais Regina de Moura Braga Silva, Federal University of Vicosa, Brazil Wael M El-Medany, University of Bahrain, Bahrain

International Liaison Chairs Karim Djouani, South African Institute of Technology, South African Verdi Marchm, HP Labs Singapore, Singapore

Awards Chairs Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait Bernady Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan

Steering Committee Chair Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada