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<div>C A LL   F O R   P A P E R S</div><div><br></div><div>The 2nd International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies</div><div><br></div><div>(ANT-2011)                </div><div><br></div><div>                           19-21 September 2011</div>
<div>                      Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada</div><div><br></div><div>         Conference Website: <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11/">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11/</a>  </div><div><br>
</div><div>****************************************************************************</div><div><br></div><div>IMPORTANT DATES</div><div>---------------------------</div><div>- Full Paper Submission:      April 30, 2011 (Extended)   </div>
<div>- Acceptance Notification:    May   15, 2011   </div><div><br></div><div>- Camera-Ready Submission:    June  15, 2011         </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies</div>
<div>(ANT-2011) is a leading international conference which provides an international</div><div><br></div><div>forum for researchers, developers and practitioners from academia, industry, and</div><div>government to address research challenges and to present and discuss research ideas,</div>
<div>developments and experiences related to the ambient systems infrastructure, models,</div><div><br></div><div>and technologies. </div><div>   The general aim of ambient systems is to provide an environment wherein computing</div>
<div>devices exist anywhere and everywhere. In such systems mobile and embedded</div><div>computing devices form ad hoc collaboration using different communication</div><div><br></div><div>networks (e.g., wireless networks, RFID, etc) in order to share and exchange</div>
<div>information and provide services. Ambient systems pose new research challenges</div><div>due to the open and unreliable nature of the environment and the complexity and</div><div><br></div><div>heterogeneity of the computing devices and the underlying communication networks.</div>
<div>These characteristics challenge traditional techniques and demand new ways of</div><div>approaching the problems related to the ambient systems.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>TOPICS OF INTEREST</div><div>----------------------------- </div>
<div>Prospective authors are invited to submit papers to the following research tracks.</div><div>Details on topics of each track are available at the conference website.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>- Autonomic Networks and Communications</div>
<div>- Systems Software Engineering</div><div>- Systems Security and Privacy</div><div>- Distributed Artificial Intelligence</div><div>- Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing </div><div>- Multimodal Interfaces </div><div>
<br></div><div>- Service Oriented Computing for Systems &amp; Applications </div><div>- Smart Environments and Applications </div><div>- Social Networks</div><div>- General track: Distributed systems, networks and applications</div>
<div><br></div><div>PUBLICATION</div><div>-------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Papers accepted for the conference will be printed in the conference proceedings</div><div>published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series</div>
<div>(on-line and CD). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on <a href="http://www.Elsevier.com">www.Elsevier.com</a> and on</div><div><br></div><div>Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com">www.sciencedirect.com</a>), and will be freely</div>
<div>available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus</div><div>(<a href="http://www.scopus.com">www.scopus.com</a>) and Engineering Village (Ei) (<a href="http://www.engineeringvillage.com">www.engineeringvillage.com</a>). This</div>
<div><br></div><div>includes EI Compendex (<a href="http://www.ei.org/compendex">www.ei.org/compendex</a>). The papers will contain linked</div><div>references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a</div>
<div>hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your</div><div><br></div><div>proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues</div><div>of: </div><div><br>
</div><div>(1) Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, by Springer</div><div>    <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/user+interfaces/journal/779">http://www.springer.com/computer/user+interfaces/journal/779</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>(2) Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, by Springer</div><div>      <a href="http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652">http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652</a></div>
<div>(3) Social Network Analysis and Mining Journal, by Springer         </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/13278">http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/13278</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE</div><div>--------------------------------------------</div><div>Submitted technical papers must be no longer than 8 pages for full papers and 4</div><div>pages for short papers including all figures and references, and must be formatted</div>
<div><br></div><div>according to Elsevier guidelines (<a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11/">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11/</a>). </div><div><br></div><div>COMMITTEES</div><div>------------------</div>
<div>General Chairs</div><div>  Nick Cercone, York University, Canada</div><div><br></div><div>  Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia </div><div>Program Chairs</div><div>  Hossam Hassanein, Queen&#39;s University, Canada</div>
<div>  Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK</div><div>  Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Advisory Committee</div><div>  Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA</div>
<div>  Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada</div><div>  Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK</div><div>  Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy </div><div><br></div><div>  Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan</div>
<div>  Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany</div><div>  Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA</div><div>  Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia </div><div>Workshops Chairs</div><div><br>
</div><div>  Sajid Hussain, Fisk University, USA</div><div>  Senol Erdogan, Maltepe University, Turkey</div><div>Program vice Chairs</div><div>  Jiang Li, Howard University, USA</div><div>  Ye Tian, Univ. of Science and Technology of China, China</div>
<div>  Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany</div><div><br></div><div>  Agustinus Waluyo, Institute for Infocom Research, Singapore</div><div>  Farookh Hussain, Curtin University of Technology, Australia</div>
<div>  Javier Garc?a-Villalba, Universidad Comp. de Madrid, Spain</div><div>  Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany</div><div><br></div><div>  Lars Braubach, University of Hamburg, Germany</div><div>  Anis Koubaa, Al-Imam University, Saudi Arabia/CISTER Research Unit, Portugal</div>
<div>  Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia</div><div>  Thomas Grill, University of Salzburg, Austria</div><div><br></div><div>  Soraya Kouadri Most?faoui, The Open University, UK</div><div>  Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE</div>
<div>  Tarek Sheltami, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia</div><div>  Bessam Abdulrazak, Sherbrooke University, Canada</div><div>  Keivan Kian-Mehr, University of Western Ontario, Canada</div><div><br></div><div>  Tansel Ozyer, TOBB Econo &amp; Tech University, Turkey</div>
<div>Local Arrangement Chairs</div><div>  Nauman Aslam, Dalhousie University, Canada</div><div>  Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario, Canada</div><div>Publicity Chairs</div><div>  Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia</div>
<div><br></div><div>  Abdel Ilah Alshbatat, Tafila Technical University, Jordan</div><div>International Liaison Chairs</div><div>  Imad Saleh, University of Paris VIII, France</div><div>  Bernady Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan</div>
<div>Awards Chairs</div><div>  Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada</div><div><br></div><div>  Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait</div><div>Steering Committee Chair</div><div>  Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada</div>
<div><br></div><div>*******************************************************************</div><div><br></div><div>                    ANT-2011 Affiliated Workshops</div><div><br></div><div>    <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11/#approvedWorkshops">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11/#approvedWorkshops</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>*******************************************************************</div><div><br></div><div>The ANT-2011 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops. The main</div><div>objective of the workshops is to provide a forum for researchers and professionals</div>
<div>to discuss a specific topic from the field of ANT-2011 and its related areas. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>PUBLICATION</div><div>-----------</div><div>All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the ANT-2011 proceedings,</div>
<div>which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as</div><div>given in ANT-2011Website. The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6</div><div><br></div><div>pages. The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshops, after further</div>
<div>revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues.</div><div><br></div><div>IMPORTANT DATES (workshops)</div><div>---------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>03/31/2011 - Submission Deadline </div>
<div>05/15/2011 - Author Notification  </div><div>05/30/2011 - Author Registration Due  </div><div>06/20/2011 - Final Manuscript Due</div><div><br></div><div>ANT-2011 - WORKSHOPS</div><div>--------------------</div><div>ETACC: Emerging Trends and Applications of Cloud Computing</div>
<div><br></div><div>   <a href="http://www.peterindia.net/peterworkshop.html">http://www.peterindia.net/peterworkshop.html</a></div><div>WNCS: International Workshop on Wireless Networked Control Systems</div><div>   <a href="http://myweb.dal.ca/naslam/wncs-11/">http://myweb.dal.ca/naslam/wncs-11/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>WIAS: International Workshop on Information Assurance and Security</div><div>   <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/wias2011/">https://sites.google.com/site/wias2011/</a></div><div>HCUMA: International Workshop on Health Care Using Mobile Apps</div>
<div><br></div><div>   <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/hcuma2011/">https://sites.google.com/site/hcuma2011/</a></div><div>IST-AWSN: The 6th International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Techniques for Ad</div><div>
hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks</div><div><br></div><div>   <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ist-awsn11/">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ist-awsn11/</a> </div><div>EmSeNs: International Workshop on Emerging Technologies in Sensor Networks </div>
<div>   <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/emsens2011/">https://sites.google.com/site/emsens2011/</a></div><div><br></div><div>IUPT: Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things</div><div>   <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/iupt-11/">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/iupt-11/</a></div>
<div>DP: Digital Planet</div><div>   <a href="http://debii.curtin.edu.au/~naeem/dp/index.html">http://debii.curtin.edu.au/~naeem/dp/index.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>AASNET: The 5th International Symposium on Applications of Ad hoc and Sensor Networks </div>
<div>   <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/aasnet11/">https://sites.google.com/site/aasnet11/</a></div><div>GTDS: Green Technology and Digital Sustainability</div><div><br></div><div>   <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11/#approvedWorkshops">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-11/#approvedWorkshops</a></div>
<div>AAC: Autonomic and Agent Computing: Foundations and Applications</div><div><br></div><div>   <a href="http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~bentahar/AAC2011/AAC2011.htm">http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~bentahar/AAC2011/AAC2011.htm</a></div>
<div>ARTIFACT: AmbienT Intelligence at the services of inFo-mobility and Critical</div><div><br></div><div>Transportation networks</div><div>   <a href="http://www.graphitech.it/artifact/">http://www.graphitech.it/artifact/</a> </div>
<div>GCRE: International Workshop on Green Computing and Renewable Energy</div><div>   <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gcre2011/">https://sites.google.com/site/gcre2011/</a></div><div><br></div><br>-- <br>Asst. Prof. Tansel Özyer<br>
Department of Computer Engineering<br>TOBB ETU, Ankara Turkey<br><a href="http://ozyer.etu.edu.tr" target="_blank">http://ozyer.etu.edu.tr</a><br>
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