The goal of the ANT-2011 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.
Automatic Networks and Communications

* Fault tolerance in ambient system
* Networks systems architectures
* Reliable and scalable systems networks
* Self-adaptive systems
* Self-healing systems
* Self-optimizing systems
* Self-organizing systems
* Self-protecting systems
* Self-tuning wireless systems
* System policies

Systems Software Engineering

* Agent-oriented software engineering
* Ambient analysis, modeling, design and testing
* Ambient resource management
* Development processes
* Evaluation, validation and verification of ambient systems
* Hardware and software integration
* Human computer interface
* Innovative engineering paradigms
* New engineering methodologies
* Quality and reliability of ambient systems
* Techniques for designing, analyzing and building ambient system
* Tools for designing, analyzing and building ambient systems

Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies

* Ad hoc mobile networks
* Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications
* Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology
* Wireless Mesh Networks
* Communication protocols (IEEE 802.15.4, ZigBee, 6LowPAN)
* Autonomic Management and Operation
* Domotics, Automotive Networks
* Geographic routing
* Localization and Tracking
* Multimedia protocols & networking
* Network applications & services
* Optimization for Effective Communications
* Peer-to-Peer Networks
* Robotics and Multi-Robot Collaboration
* Secure Multimedia Streaming and Transmission
* QoS and Admission Control
* Service Localization and Pervasiveness
* Vanets: Protocols, Security, Platforms and Performance Evaluation

Smart Environments and Applications in Ambient Systems

* Ambient assisted living
* Modeling smart environments
* Smart cards, factories, objects, classrooms, homes
* Smart hospitals, schools, vehicles, hyperspace
* Smart Web services
* Virtual environments

Social Networks

* Applications of social network analysis
* Contextual social network analysis
* Evolution of communities in the Web
* Personalization for search and for social interaction
* Recommendation networks
* Temporal analysis on social networks topologies
* Web community

Distributed Artificial Intelligence

* Adaptive agents
* Agents architectures
* Auctions and market-based systems
* Collaborative multi-agent systems
* Context models and context factors for ambient intelligence
* Competitive multi-agent based systems
* Cooperative multi-agent based systems
* Evolutionary computation in ambient systems
* Mobile agents
* Modeling agents behaviors in ambient systems
* Monitoring agents
* Negotiating agents
* Reasoning technology for ambient sensing
* Robotics in ambient systems
* Secure and trusted agents

Systems Security and Privacy

* Ambient trust platforms
* Asset protection
* Authentications techniques for ambient systems
* Cryptographic protocols
* Denial of services attacks
* Intrusion detection and prevention systems
* Privacy and security issues and policies in ambient system
* Rights managements for ambient systems
* Security approaches and mechanisms
* Security architecture
* Secure coding
* Security requirements for ambient systems
* Smart cards
* Trust management
* Trust models and architectures

Multimodal Interfaces
HCI

* Combining multiple interaction types
* Explicit and implicit interaction
* Human computer interaction standards and guidelines
* Intentional and unintentional interaction
* Mobile interaction
* Modeling interaction in ambient systems
* Uni-directional and bi-directional interaction
* User modeling for ambient systems

Context and Context Awareness

* Adaptive interfaces
* Cognitive and emotional awareness
* Context models
* Interaction awareness
* Situational context
* User context

Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications

* Automated and adapted services
* Cluster systems
* Grid systems
* Inferred environmental data
* Integration of pervasive computing systems
* Interaction and management
* Pervasive services & applications
* Pervasive communications
* Pervasive infrastructure and development
* Platforms, middleware systems and services
* Power aware computing
* Sensing systems
* Service management and protocols
* System support infrastructures and services
* Ubiquitous web services

General

* Distributed systems, networks and applications