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The 16th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT)

Patras, Greece
April 22-24, 2025

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Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-25/

Workshops: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-25/#workshop



Important Dates
- Workshops Proposals Due: October 28, 2024

- Paper Submission Due: November 20, 2024

- Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2025

- Camera-Ready Submission: February 9, 2025



ANT 2025 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of:



- International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 4.594), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652)

- International Journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (IF:3.006), Springer (https://www.springer.com/journal/779)

- International Journal on Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice (IF: 3.992), by Elsevier (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice/)

ANT 2025 will be held in Patra Greece. Patra is Greece's third largest, and the regional capital and largest city of western Greece, in the northern Peloponnese, 215 km west of Athens. As of the 2021 census, the municipality of Patras has a population of 215,922, while the urban population is 173.600. Patras and its region are home to various Ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine Monuments including the Roman Odeon, the Fortress of Rio, and the Castle of Patras. Patras is a relatively newly built city, as its medieval buildings were destroyed in the Greek War of Independence. The Patras Carnival is the largest event of its kind in Greece and one of the biggest in Europe, with a heritage reaching back 160 years.


Patras is an important educational center in Greece, home to several institutions of higher education, including the prestigious University of Patras, which is the third largest university in Greece with the respect to the size of the student body, the staff, and the number of departments. and most respected universities. The university of Patras is considered one of the top-ranked universities in Greece and has been placed in the top 200 universities in subject areas. In 2019, the student population was more than 33,000 (29,901 at the undergraduate level and 3,931 at the postgraduate level).



ANT 2025 will be held in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry (EDI40).



Conference Tracks

- Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications

- Big Data and Analytics

- Cloud Computing

- Context-awareness and Multimodal Interfaces

- Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies

- Human Computer Interaction

- Internet of Things

- Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications

- Modelling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences

- Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks
- Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications

- Smart, Sustainable Cities and Climate Change Management

- Smart Environments and Applications

- Systems Security and Privacy

- Systems Software Engineering

- Vehicular Networks and Applications

- General Track



General Chairs

Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK

Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia



Program Chairs

Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada

Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, Hasselt University, Belgium



Workshops Chair

Stephane Galland, UTBM, France

Local Chairs

John Gialelis, University of Patras, Greece
Dimitrios Zavantis, AGEAN motorway, Greece

Vice Chairs
Muhammad Adnan, Hasselt University, Belgium
Manzoor Ahmed, Hubei Engineering University, Xiaogan, China
Ayoub Bahnasse, Hassan II University, Morocco
Ali Benzerbadj, University of Ain Temouchent Belhadj Bouchaib, Algeria
Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK
Samia Bouzefrane, CEDRIC Lab Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, France
Junsung Choi, Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea
Robertas Damasevicius, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
Mohammad Ghanim, Ministry of Transport, Qatar
Faouzi Kammoun, Ecole Superieure Privee d'Ingenierie et de Technologies, Tunis
Bouabdellah Kechar, Oran 1 Ahmed BenBella University, Algeria
Flavio Lombardi, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy
Sazia Mahfuz, Acadian University, Canada
Yazan Mualla, UTBM, France
Euripides Petrakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland
Khair Eddin Sabri, The University of Jordan, Jordan
Khaled Shaaban, Utah Valley University, USA
Kamran Siddique, Xiamen University Malaysia, Malaysia
Mohamed Tabaa, EMSI, Morocco
Igor Tchappi, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Farhana Zulkernine, Queen's University, Canada

Technical Program Committee

http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-25/#programCommittees



Publicity Chairs

Anas Al-Rahamneh, Public University of Navarre, Spain
Sony Guntuka, Acadia University, Canada
Farhan Ullah, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Orven E. Llantos, MSU-IIT, Philippines
Shashank Swarup, Kalinga University, Raipur, India


International Journals Chairs

Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA

Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia



Advisory Committee

Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada

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

Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK

Ibad Kureshi, Inlecomm Systems, Belgium

Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy

Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands

Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany

Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia



International Liaison Chairs

Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada

Paul Davidsson, Malmo University, Sweden

David Taniar, Monash University, Australia