The 8th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2017)
<br><br> Madeira, Portugal
<br><br> May 16-19, 2017
<br><br>Conference Website: <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-17/">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-17/</a>
<br><br>*Important Dates
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<br><br>- Workshops Proposal Due: November 1, 2016
<br><br>- Paper Submission Due: January 20, 2016 (FINAL)
<br><br>- Acceptance Notification: February 13, 2017
<br><br>- Camera-Ready Submission: March 13, 2017
<br><br>ANT 2017 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 <a href="http://www.Elsevier.com">www.Elsevier.com</a> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com">www.sciencedirect.com</a>), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (<a href="http://www.scopus.com">www.scopus.com</a>) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (<a href="http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/">http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/</a>). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (<a href="http://www.scopus.com">www.scopus.com</a>) and Engineering Village (Ei) (<a href="http://www.engineeringvillage.com">www.engineeringvillage.com</a>). This includes EI Compendex (<a href="http://www.ei.org/compendex">www.ei.org/compendex</a>). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (<a href="http://dblp.uni-trier.de/">http://dblp.uni-trier.de/</a>). 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:
<br><br>- Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 0.835), by Springer (<a href="http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652">http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652</a>)
<br><br>- Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 2.430), by Elsevier (<a href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/">http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/</a>)
<br><br>- IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 1.547), by IEEE (<a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645">http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645</a>)
<br><br>- Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (IF: 1.498), by Springer (<a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779">http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779</a>)
<br><br>ANT 2017 will be held in Madeira, a Portuguese archipelago. Madeira is a popular year-round tourist destination, known for its remarkable mountainous scenery and mild year-long climate. Although, Madeira is part of Europe it is approximately 1,000 km from the continent while being only 520 km from the coast of Africa. It is about an hour and a half flight from the capital of Portugal, Lisbon. Funchal, the picturesque capital of Madeira, is situated on the south coast of the island and one of Atlantic Oceans most popular cruise ship ports. Madeira is a scenic island with many unique destinations such as the Laurisilva forest, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
<br><br>ANT-2017 will be held in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT, <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-17/).">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-17/).</a>
<br><br>Conference Tracks
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<br><br>- Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications
<br><br>- Automatic Networks and Communications
<br><br>- Big Data and Analytics
<br><br>- Cloud Computing
<br><br>- Context-awareness and Multimodal Interfaces
<br><br>- Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies
<br><br>- Internet of Things
<br><br>- Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications
<br><br>- Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences
<br><br>- Multimedia and Social Computing
<br><br>- Real-time Big Data Stream Mining Architecture
<br><br>- Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications
<br><br>- Smart, Sustainable Cities and Climate Change Management
<br><br>- Smart Environments and Applications
<br><br>- Systems Security and Privacy
<br><br>- Systems Software Engineering
<br><br>- Vehicular Networks and Applications
<br><br>- General Track
<br><br>COMMITTEES
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<br><br>General Chairs
<br><br> Atta Baddi, University of Reading, UK
<br><br> Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada
<br><br> Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia
<br><br>Program Chairs
<br><br> Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB Ð Hasselt University, Belgium
<br><br> Nuno Varandas, IPN Coimbra, Portugal
<br><br>Advisory Committee
<br><br> Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
<br><br> Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia
<br><br> Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
<br><br> Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
<br><br> Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada
<br><br> Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
<br><br> Timothy Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
<br><br> Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
<br><br> Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
<br><br> Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
<br><br> Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia
<br><br>Workshops Chair
<br><br> Stephane Galland, UTBM, France Program
<br><br>Vice Chairs
<br><br> Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK
<br><br> Kechar Bouabdellah, Oran University, Algeria
<br><br> Samia Bouzefrane,CEDRIC Lab Conservatoire National des Arts et MŽtiers, France
<br><br> Lars Braubach, Hamburg University, Germany
<br><br> Amine Dhraief, Manouba University, Tunisia
<br><br> Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy
<br><br> Antonio Filieri, Imperial College London, England
<br><br> Chaudhary Muhammad Imran, KSU, Saudi Arabia
<br><br> Nafaa Jabeur, GU Tech, Oman
<br><br> Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
<br><br> Luk Knapen, IMOB Ð Hasselt University, Belgium
<br><br> Flavio Lombardi, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy
<br><br> Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA
<br><br> Nils Masuch, DAI Ð TU Berlin, Germany
<br><br> Ana C. R. Paiva, University of Porto, Portugal
<br><br> Francesco Pilla, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
<br><br> Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro, University of Paris 1, France
<br><br> Lo'ai Tawalbeh, Umm AlQura University, KSA
<br><br> Yves Vanrompay, Hasselt University, Belgium
<br><br>International Journals Chair
<br><br> Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia
<br><br> Yongrui Qin, University of Huddersfield, UK
<br><br>Publicity Chairs
<br><br> Rui Din’s, Instituto de Telecomunica ›es, FCT-UNL, Lisbon, Portugal
<br><br> Sarmad Ullah Khan, CECOS University, Pakistan
<br><br> Josep Maria Salanova, CERT, Greece
<br><br>International Liaison Chairs
<br><br> Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada
<br><br> Paul Davidsson, Malmo University, Sweden
<br><br> Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy
<br><br> David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
<br><br>Technical Program Committee
<br><br> <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-17/#programCommittees">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-17/#programCommittees</a>
<br><br>Steering Committee Chair and Founder of ANT
<br><br> Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada