ANT 2017 - 8th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2017)

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
www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and
will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus
(www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index
(http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-c...). 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). Moreover, all
accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). 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:
- International
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, by Springer
(http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652)
- International Journal of Future Generation
Computer Systems, by Elsevier (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation...-
systems/)
- International Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, by Springer
(http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779)
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.
ANT-2017 will be held in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Sustainable
Energy Information Technology (SEIT, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/SEIT-17/).
Conference Tracks===- Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications-
Automatic Networks and Communications- Big Data and Analytics- Cloud Computing
- Context-awareness and Multimodal Interfaces- Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing
Technologies- Internet of Things- Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications- Modeling and
Simulation in Transportation Sciences- Multimedia and Social Computing- Service Oriented
Computing for Systems & Applications- Smart Environments and Applications- Systems Security and
Privacy- Systems Software Engineering- Vehicular Networks and Applications- General Track
COMMITTEES===General Chairs Atta Baddi, University of Reading, UK
Hossam Hassanein,
Queen's University, Canada
Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia
Program Chairs Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB ? Hasselt University, Belgium
Nuno Varandas, IPN
Coimbra, Portugal
Advisory Committee Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
Abdelfettah Belghith,
University of Manouba, Tunisia
Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Erol
Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Vincenzo
Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
Timothy Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Peter Sloot,
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon
University, USA
Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia
Workshops Chair Stephane Galland, UTBM, France Program
Vice Chairs Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK
Kechar Bouabdellah, Oran University, Algeria
Samia Bouzefrane,CEDRIC Lab Conservatoire National des Arts et MŽtiers, France
Lars Braubach, Hamburg University, Germany
Amine Dhraief, Manouba University, Tunisia
Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy
Antonio Filieri, Imperial College London, England
Chaudhary Muhammad Imran, KSU, Saudi Arabia
Nafaa Jabeur, GU Tech, Oman
Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
Luk Knapen, IMOB ? Hasselt University, Belgium
Flavio Lombardi, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy
Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA
Nils Masuch, DAI ? TU Berlin, Germany
Ana C. R. Paiva, University of Porto, Portugal
Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro, University of Paris 1, France
Lo'ai Tawalbeh, Umm AlQura University, KSA
Weidong Xiang, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Yves Vanrompay, Hasselt University, Belgium
International Journals Chair Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia
Yongrui Qin,
University of Huddersfield, UK
Publicity Chairs Rui Din’s, Instituto de Telecomunica ?es, FCT-UNL, Lisbon, Portugal
Sarmad Ullah Khan, CECOS University, Pakistan
Josep Maria Salanova, CERT, Greece
International Liaison Chairs Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada Paul Davidsson,
Malmo University, Sweden Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy David Taniar, Monash
University, AustraliaTechnical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-17/#programCo... Committee Chair and Founder of ANT Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia
University, Canada