The goal of the ANT-2012 conference is to provide an international forum for scientists, engineers, and managers in academia, industry, and government to address recent research results and to present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences on all theoretical and practical issues arising in the ambient systems paradigm, infrastructures, models, and technologies that have significant contributions to the advancement of ambient systems theory, practices and their applications.

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

Multi-modal Interfaces

HCI

Context and Context Awareness

Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications

Smart Environments and Applications

Systems Security and Privacy

Systems Software Engineering

Vehicular Networks and Applications

General Track: Distributed systems, networks and applications