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The 15th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT)
Hasselt, Belgium
April 23-25, 2024

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Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-24/
Workshops: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-24/#workshop



Important Dates
- Workshops Proposals Due: October 20, 2023
- Paper Submission Due: December 4, 2023 (extended)
- Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2024
- Camera-Ready Submission: February 9, 2024

ANT 2024 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-citation-index/). 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 (IF: 4.594), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652)
- International Journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (IF:3.006), Springer (https://www.springer.com/journal/779)
- International Journal on Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice (IF: 3.992), by Elsevier (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice/)


ANT 2024 will be held in Hasselt, Belgium. ANT 2024 is co-organized & co-hosted by the Hasselt University, Belgium. Since 1973 Hasselt University is located on the Campus Diepenbeek, which occupies an attractive 150 acre site in the middle of Limburg's green belt. It is 2 kms west of the town centre of Diepenbeek, a residential town of 17.717 inhabitants, and 4 kms east of Hasselt which has a population of about 69.529 and is the administrative and commercial centre of the province. Brussels is 90 kms away (to the South-West), Antwerp lies 90 kms to the West, Liège (in the French-speaking part of Belgium) 45 kms to the South, Maastricht (in the Netherlands) 25 kms to the East, Aachen (in Germany) 60 kms to the South-East.

ANT 2024 will be held in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry (EDI40).

Conference Tracks
- Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications
- Big Data and Analytics
- Cloud Computing
- Context-awareness and Multimodal Interfaces
- Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies
- Human Computer Interaction
- Internet of Things
- Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications
- Modelling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences
- Multimedia and Social Computing
- Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications
- Smart, Sustainable Cities and Climate Change Management
- Smart Environments and Applications
- Systems Security and Privacy
- Systems Software Engineering
- Vehicular Networks and Applications
- General Track


General Chairs

Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK
Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia

Program Chairs

Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada
Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, Hasselt University, Belgium

Workshops Chair

Stephane Galland, UTBM, France

Vice Chairs

Muhammad Adnan, Hasselt University, Belgium
Manzoor Ahmed, Hubei Engineering University, Xiaogan, China
Akramul Azim, Ontario Tech University, Canada
Ayoub Bahnasse, Hassan II University, Morocco
Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK
Samia Bouzefrane, CEDRIC Lab Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, France
Junsung Choi, Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea
Robertas Damasevicius, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
Antonella Galizia, Principal Scientist, CNR, Italy
Mohammad Ghanim, Ministry of Transport, Qatar
Stefano Guarino, IAC-CNR Rome, Italy
Faouzi Kammoun, Ecole Superieure Privee d'Ingenierie et de Technologies, Tunis
Bouabdellah Kechar, Oran 1 Ahmed BenBella University, Algeria
Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada
Flavio Lombardi, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy
Yazan Mualla, UTBM, France
Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland
Khair Eddin Sabri, The University of Jordan, Jordan
Cristina Seceleanu, Malardalen University, Sweden
Khaled Shaaban, Utah Valley University, USA
Kamran Siddique, Xiamen University Malaysia, Malaysia
Mohamed Tabaa, EMSI, Morocco
Igor Tchappi, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Technical Program Committee

http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-24/#programCommittees

Publicity Chairs

Ali Benzerbadj, University of Ain Temouchent Belhadj Bouchaib, Algeria
Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium
Siddardha Kaja, Air Canada, Canada
Orven E. Llantos, MSU-IIT, Philippines
Farhan Ullah, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

International Journals Chairs

Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA
Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia

Advisory Committee

Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
Ibad Kureshi, Inlecomm Systems, Belgium
Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia

International Liaison Chairs

Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada
Paul Davidsson, Malmo University, Sweden
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

Steering Committee Chair and Founder of ANT

Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada