IMPORTANT DATES
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• Full Paper Submission (EXTENDED): February 10, 2010
• Acceptance Notification: March 20, 2010
• Camera-Ready Submission: May 01, 2010
• Conference Days: July 26-28, 2010
The International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2010) 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.
- Ambient-oriented Autonomic Networks and Communications
- Ambient Systems Software Engineering
- Ambient Systems Security and Privacy
- Distributed Ambient Artificial Intelligence
- Emerging Ambient Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies
- Multimodal Interfaces for Ambient Systems
- Service Oriented Computing for Ambient Systems & Applications
- Smart Environments and Applications in Ambient Systems
PUBLICATION
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Papers accepted for the conference will be published in the proceedings of Communications in Computer and Information Science series, Springer. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of:
(1) Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing
http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652
(2) Journal of Service Oriented Computing and Applications
http://www.springer.com/computer/communications/journal/11761
(3) Journal of Multiagent and Grid Systems
http://www.iospress.nl/loadtop/load.php?isbn=15741702
(4) Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
http://www.springer.com/computer/user+interfaces/journal/779
PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
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Submitted technical papers must be no longer than 10 pages for full papers and 6 pages for short papers including all figures and references, and must be formatted according to Springer guidelines.
http://www.springer.com/series/7899
COMMITTEES
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General Chairs
Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan
Program Chairs
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Advisory Committee
Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia
Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
Program vice Chairs
Agustinus Waluyo, Institute for Infocom Research, Singapore
Arantza Aldea, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada
Jiang Li, Howard University, USA
Kevin Curran, University of Ulster, Ireland
Khaled Ali, Ottawa University, Canada
Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany
Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui, The Open University, UK
Soumaya Cherkaoui, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Takahiro HARA, Osaka University, Japan
Tarek Sheltami, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
Tom Lunney, University of Ulster, Ireland
Tomoya Enokido, Risho University, Japan
Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
