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The 9th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN 2018)

Date: November 5-8, 2018
Location: Leuven, Belgium
Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-18/
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The 9th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN) is a premier venue for bringing together multi-disciplinary researchers, professionals and practitioners from both academia and industry, who are engaged in different facets of ubiquitous systems and pervasive networks. The conference encourages innovative research contributions providing the recent significant developments and promising future trends of EUSPN based applications, systems, tools, environments and infrastructures in the fields of EUSPN and related areas.

Important Dates:
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- Paper Submission Due: Jul 16, 2018 (final)
- Author Notification: August 8, 2018
- Final Manuscript Due: September 8, 2018

Publication
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All EUSPN 2018 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. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of:

- International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 1.588), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652)
- International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504), (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index)
- IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 3.654), by IEEE (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645)

EUSPN 2018 will be held in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-18/). Papers on either completed or ongoing research are invited in the following and related tracks: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-18/call-for-papers.html

EUSPN 2018 will be held in the city of Leuven. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world.

The conference venue will be at Park Inn (by Radisson) Hotel (Leuven), which is located right in the heart of the Leuven city. The hotel is less than 2 mins walk from the Leuven train station. All you have to do is to get off the train (or the taxi or the bus) and take the elevator to the bridge connecting the hotel with the rest of the city. Leuven city is directly connected with the Brussels International airport with a 13 min connection via train, 45 mins via bus or a 20 min by taxi (or Uber).

Conference Tracks
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- Ad hoc and Pervasive Networks
- Adaptive Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications
- Big Data and Big Data Science
- Cloud, Cluster, Grid and Social Computing
- Emerging Pervasive/Ubiquitous Technologies
- Intelligent Traffic and Transportation Systems
- Internet of Things
- Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications
- Security, Privacy, and Trust
- Semantic Web Technologies

Committees
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General Chair
Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK

Program Chairs
Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB, Hasselt University, Belgium
Francesco Piccialli, Francesco Piccialli, University of Naples, Federico II, Italy, Italy

Advisory Committee
Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada
Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan
Peter Sloot, Netherlands
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia

Workshops Chair
Muhammad Adnan, Hasselt University, Belgium

Publicity Chairs
Monika Davidekova, Comenius University, Slovak Republic
Mohamed Guerroumi, USTHB University, Algeria
Hasibur Rahman, Stockholm University, Sweden

Program Vice Chairs
Syed Hassan Ahmed, University of Central Florida, USA
Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom
Kechar Bouabdellah, University Of Oran 1 Ahmed Benbella, Algeria
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste, Italy
Stéphane Galland, Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, France
Abid Khan, CIIT, Pakistan
Yannis Korkontzelos, Edge Hill University, UK
Flavio Lombardi, Universita Roma Tre, Italy
Euripides Petrakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Evangelos Pournaras, ETH, Switzerland
Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia
Stelios Sotiriadis, University of Toronto, Canada
Wei Zhang, Macquarie University, Australia

Technical Program Committee
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-18/organizing-commitee.html