All 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.

Conference Tracks:
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- 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

COMMITTEES
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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
Jiang Li, Howard University, USA
Tarek Sheltami, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia
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
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada
Adnan Al-Anbuky, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Wail Mardini, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada
Luis Javier Garc?a Villalba, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Agustinus Waluyo, Monash University, Australia
Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada

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

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