The 2nd International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2011)

19-21 September 2011
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11/
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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Full Paper Submission: March 15, 2011
- Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2011
- Camera-Ready Submission: June 15, 2011

The International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2011) is a leading international conference which provides an international forum for researchers, developers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to address research challenges and to present and discuss research ideas, developments and experiences related to the ambient systems infrastructure, models, and technologies.

The general aim of ambient systems is to provide an environment wherein computing devices exist anywhere and everywhere. In such systems mobile and embedded computing devices form ad hoc collaboration using different communication networks (e.g., wireless networks, RFID, etc) in order to share and exchange information and provide services. Ambient systems pose new research challenges due to the open and unreliable nature of the environment and the complexity and heterogeneity of the computing devices and the underlying communication networks. These characteristics challenge traditional techniques and demand new ways of approaching the problems related to the ambient systems.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Prospective authors are invited to submit papers to the following research tracks. Details on topics of each track are available at the conference website.

- Autonomic Networks and Communications
- Systems Software Engineering
- Systems Security and Privacy
- Distributed Artificial Intelligence
- Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing
- Multimodal Interfaces
- Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications
- Smart Environments and Applications
- Social Networks
- General track: Distributed systems, networks and applications


PUBLICATION

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Papers accepted for the conference 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 (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. 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). 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:



(1) Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, by Springer

http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652

(2) Social Network Analysis and Mining Journal, by Springer

http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/13278
(3) Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, by Springer
http://www.springer.com/computer/user+interfaces/journal/779



PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE

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Submitted technical papers must be no longer than 8 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers including all figures and references, and must be formatted according to Elsevier guidelines (http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11/).





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

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

Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada

Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK

Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy

Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan

Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany

Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia



Workshops Chairs

Sajid Hussain, Fisk University, USA

Senol Erdogan, Maltepe University, Turkey



Program vice Chairs

Jiang Li, Howard University, USA

Ye Tian, Univ. of Science and Technology of China, China

Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany

Agustinus Waluyo, Institute for Infocom Research, Singapore

Farookh Hussain, Curtin University of Technology, Australia

Javier Garc’a-Villalba, Universidad Comp. de Madrid, Spain

Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Lars Braubach, University of Hamburg, Germany
Anis Koubaa, Al-Imam University, Saudi Arabia/CISTER Research Unit, Portugal

Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia

Thomas Grill, University of Salzburg, Austria

Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications

Soraya Kouadri MostŽfaoui, The Open University, UK

Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE

Tarek Sheltami, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia

Bessam Abdulrazak, Sherbrooke University, Canada

Keivan Kian-Mehr, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Tansel Ozyer, TOBB Econo & Tech University, Turkey



Local Arrangement Chairs

Nauman Aslam, Dalhousie University, Canada

Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario, Canada



Publicity Chairs

Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia

Abdel Ilah Alshbatat, Tafila Technical University, Jordan



International Liaison Chairs

Imad Saleh, University of Paris VIII, France

Bernady Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan



Awards Chairs

Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada

Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait



Steering Committee Chair

Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada