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The 14th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications
August 19-21, 2019
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-19/
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Future Networks and Communications (FNC) research effort will help achieving a major promise of the emerging technologies such as, ubiquitous access to broadband, supporting vital applications in our daily lives such as health, energy consumption, environment transport, entertainment or education. The scope of FNC is the development of energy-efficient future network infrastructures that support the convergence and interoperability of heterogeneous mobile, wired and wireless broadband network technologies as enablers of the future Internet. This includes but not limited to ubiquitous fast broadband access and ultra-high speed end-to-end optical connectivity, supporting open services and innovative ambient applications. Scope also embraces novel and evolutionary approaches to tackle network architectures, taking due consideration of users and societal needs for success.

Important Dates
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- Workshop Proposal Due: February 15, 2019
- Paper Submission Due: March 28, 2019
- Acceptance Notification: May 25, 2019
- Final Manuscript Due: June 25, 2019

Publication
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All FNC 2019 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 following special issues:

- International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 1.588), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652)
- International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504), (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index)
- IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 3.654), by IEEE (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645)

FNC 2019 will be held in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-19/).

FNC 2019 is co-organized & co-hosted by Acadia and Dalhousie Universities. FNC 2019 will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Halifax is located on the east coast of Canada and is approximately 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.


COMMITTEES:
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General Chair
Ladislav Hluchy, Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia

Program Chairs
Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA
Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, Hasselt University, Belgium

Local Chairs
Ahsan Habib, Dalhousie University, Canada
Hassan Raza, Dalhousie University, Canada

Workshops Chair
Stephane Galland, Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, France

International Journals Chair
Atta Badii, Reading University, UK

Publicity Chairs
Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium
Mohammed Erritali, University Sultane Moulay Slimane, Morocco

Advisory Committee
Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada
Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada
Zygmunt J. Haas, Cornell University, USA
Philippe Martins, Telecom Paris Tech, France
Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

Technical Program Committee
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-19/#programCommittees