IMPORTANT DATES
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- Full Paper Submission: March 15, 2011
- Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2011
- Camera-Ready Submission: June 15, 2011
The International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2011) 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.
- Autonomic Networks and Communications
- Systems Software Engineering
- Systems Security and Privacy
- Distributed Artificial Intelligence
- Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing
- Multimodal Interfaces
- Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications
- Smart Environments and Applications
- Social Networks
- General track: Distributed systems, networks and applications
PUBLICATION
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Papers accepted for the conference will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line and CD). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. 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). 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:
(1) Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, by Springer
http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652
(2) Social Network Analysis and Mining Journal, by Springer
http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/13278
(3) Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, by Springer
http://www.springer.com/computer/user+interfaces/journal/779
PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
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Submitted technical papers must be no longer than 8 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers including all figures and references, and must be formatted according to Elsevier guidelines (http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11/).
COMMITTEES
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General Chairs
Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia
Program Chairs
Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
Advisory Committee
Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia
Program vice Chairs
Jiang Li, Howard University, USA
Ye Tian, Univ. of Science and Technology of China, China
Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany
Agustinus Waluyo, Institute for Infocom Research, Singapore
Farookh Hussain, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Javier GarcÆa-Villalba, Universidad Comp. de Madrid, Spain
Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Lars Braubach, University of Hamburg, Germany
Anis Koubaa, Al-Imam University, Saudi Arabia/CISTER Research Unit, Portugal
Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia
Thomas Grill, University of Salzburg, Austria
Soraya Kouadri MostÄfaoui, The Open University, UK
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
Tarek Sheltami, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
Bessam Abdulrazak, Sherbrooke University, Canada
Keivan Kian-Mehr, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Tansel Ozyer, TOBB Econo & Tech University, Turkey
Local Arrangement Chairs
Nauman Aslam, Dalhousie University, Canada
Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario, Canada
Publicity Chairs
Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia
Abdel Ilah Alshbatat, Tafila Technical University, Jordan
International Liaison Chairs
Imad Saleh, University of Paris VIII, France
Bernady Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan
