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The 7th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2016)

Madrid, Spain
May 23-26, 2016

Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-16/
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Important Dates
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- Workshops Proposal Due: October 5, 2015
- Paper Submission Due: December 30, 2016
- Acceptance Notification: February 21, 2016
- Camera-Ready Submission: March 21, 2016

All ANT-2016 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. 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 be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. 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. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/).

Conference Tracks
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- Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications
- Automatic Networks and Communications
- Big Data and Analytics
- Cloud Computing
- Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies
- Internet of Things
- Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications
- Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences
- Multimedia and Social Computing
- Multimodal Interfaces
- Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications
- Smart Environments and Applications
- Systems Security and Privacy
- Systems Software Engineering
- Vehicular Networks and Applications
- General Track

COMMITTEES
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Honorary Chair
Carlos Conde, Rector Universidad PolitŽcnica de Madrid, Spain

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 Ð Hasselt University, Belgium
Jesœs Fraile Ardanuy, Universidad PolitŽcnica de Madrid, Spain

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, University of Derby, UK
Kechar Bouabdellah, Oran University, Algeria
Xianghui Cao, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Amine Dhraief, Manouba University, Tunisia
Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy
Nicolas Gaud, UTBM, France
Chaudhary Muhammad Imran, KSU, Saudi Arabia
Davy Janssens, IMOB Ð Hasselt University, Belgium
Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada
Lyes Khoukhi, University of Troy, France
Luk Knapen, IMOB Ð Hasselt University, Belgium
Flavio Lombardi, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy
Marco Luetzenberger, DAI Ð TU Berlin, Germany
Philip Moore, Lanzhou University, China
Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro, University of Paris 1, France
Davy Preuveneers, KU Leuven, Belgium
Hassan Raza, Dalhousie University, Canada
Bryan Riley, Ohio University, USA
Markus Schatten, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Yves Vanrompay, Hasselt University, Belgium
Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer-Institut for Computer Graphics IGD, Germany

International Journals Chair
Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia
Xianzhi Wang, the University of Adelaide, Australia

Local Arrangements Chairs
Jesœs Fraile Ardanuy, Universidad PolitŽcnica de Madrid, Spain
Roberto çlvaro-Hermana, Universidad PolitŽcnica de Madrid, Spain

Publicity Chairs
Nils Masuch, DAI Ð TU Berlin, Germany
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia sakib.pathan@gmail.com
David JimŽnez-Bermejo, Universidad PolitŽcnica de Madrid, Spain

International Liaison Chairs
Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada
Paul Davidsson, Malmo University, Sweden
Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

Technical Program Committee
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-16/#programCommittees

Steering Committee Chair and Founder of ANT
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada