[AISWorld] CFP: ANT2011 (Niagara Falls, Canada, 19-21 September 2011)

[Agustinus Borgy Waluyo]

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C A LL   F O R   P A P E R S
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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

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

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 Borgy Waluyo, Monash University, Australia
 Farookh Hussain, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
 Javier Garc’a-Villalba, Universidad Comp. de Madrid, Spain
 Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, 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