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

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
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11
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