ANT 2014 - The 5th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies

The goal of the ANT-2014 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.
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Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications
- 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
Autonomic 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
Cloud Computing
- Challenges and opportunities
- Cloud computing architectures
- Cloud ecosystem and evolution
- Cloud federation and hybrid cloud infrastructure
- Cloud services provisioning in mobile web
- Cloud traffic characterization and measurements
- Cloud-bridging and cloud-bursting
- Collaboration in clouds
- Data models for clouds
- Design tools for cloud computing
- Economic and business models for cloud computing
- Energy efficiency and clouds
- Green cloud networking
- Infrastructure-as-a-service clouds
- Innovative cloud applications and experiences
- Internet routing of cloud data
- Intra-cloud and inter-cloud networking
- Mobile cloud networking
- Mobile networks for cloud services
- Modelling and evaluation of mobile cloud
- Monitoring, management and maintenance of clouds
- Reliability and availability in clouds
- Resource distribution in clouds
- Security, privacy, confidentiality in cloud networking
Data Management
- Data as a service
- Data mining theories and applications
- Data replication, migration and dissemination
- Data mobility and location management
- Data personalization, privacy and security
- Database and data mining tools, devices and technologies
- Database query processing
- Distributed and parallel database
- Information retrieval and filtering
- Multimedia database
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
Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications
- Cellular and mobile communications
- Delay tolerant networks
- Fault tolerance and availability of mobile services
- Mobility modeling and management
- Mobility protocols
- Performance evaluation and analysis
- Service level agreements
- Testing and monitoring of mobile applications
- Service level agreements
Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences
- Collaborative transport, including collaborative multi-modal transport
- Data mining and statistical learning for travel information
- Human factors including adaptive driving, travel behaviour, persuasive technology
- Human-computer interfaces in intelligent transportation applications
- Logistics and transportation management
- Mathematical optimization in traffic engineering
- Novel applications targeted to health, mobility, liveability and sustainability
- Renewable energy sources in transportation
- Simulation of traffic, passenger flows, assisted driving or collaborative transport
- Social and institutional information related to travel
- Traffic flow and transportation model
- Travel information, including recommender systems and user feedback systems
- Uncertain information in collaborative transport and assisted traveling
Multimedia and Social Computing
- 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
Multimodal Interfaces
Human Computer Interaction
- 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
- Design, testing and Evaluation tools in service computing
- Grid systems
- Inferred environmental data
- Integration of pervasive computing systems
- Interaction and management
- Intersections of service-oriented computing with other research areas.
- Ontology matching for service discovery, negotiation, orchestration, composition, and execution
- Pervasive services & applications
- Pervasive communications
- Pervasive infrastructure and development
- Platforms, middleware systems and services
- Power aware computing
- Quality of service in service computing
- Security aspects in service-based applications
- Semantic Web services
- Sensing systems
- Service management and protocols
- Service-oriented architecture
- Service-oriented software engineering
- Service system technology
- Service-oriented applications
- System support infrastructures and services
- Ubiquitous web services
Smart Environments and Applications
- Ambient assisted living
- Modeling smart environments
- Smart cards, factories, objects, classrooms, homes
- Smart hospitals, schools, vehicles, hyperspace
- Smart Web services
- Virtual environments
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
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
Vehicular Networks and Applications
- Vehicle-infrastructure (V2I) communications
- Vehicle-to-Vehicle communications (V2V)
- Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET)
- Routing in vehicular networks
- MAC layer issues in vehicular networking
- Data dissemination issues in vehicular networking
- Physical layer issues for vehicular networking
- Antennas for vehicular networks
- RF propagation models for vehicular networks
- Radio resource management for vehicular networks
- Applications of vehicular networks
- Security and privacy in vehicular networks
- Protocols for vehicular networks (MAC, routing, mobility management, etc.)
- Architecture, algorithms and protocols for data dissemination in vehicular networks
- In-network processing and aggregation
- Network and QoS management for vehicular networks
- Physical layer and antenna technologies for vehicular networks
- RF propagation models for vehicular networks
- Simulation and performance evaluation techniques for vehicular networks
- Experimental systems for vehicular networks
- Field operational tests and testbeds for vehicular networks
- Assessment of impact of vehicular networks on transportation efficiency and safety
- Emission modelling and environmental impact assessment
- Standardization and economical models for vehicular networks
- Dependability of vehicular networks
- Networking with other road users
- Vehicular network as a sensor network
- Regional requirements and their consequences
General Track: Distributed systems, networks and applications