The 9th International Conference on Ambient Systems,
Networks and Technologies (ANT-2018)
Porto, Portugal
May 8-11, 2018
Important Dates
Workshops Proposals Due: November 30, 2017
Paper Submission Due: December 15, 2017
Acceptance Notification: February 5, 2018
Camera-Ready Submission: March 5, 2018
Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/
ANT 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. 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:
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 0.835), by
Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652)
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 1.547), by IEEE (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645)
ANT 2018 will be held in Porto, Portugal. Porto is the second-largest city in
Portugal after Lisbon and one of the major urban areas of the Iberian
Peninsula. Porto is also called the Invicta because during the 19th century
Portuguese civil war, the city withstood a siege of over a year.The urban area
of Porto, which extends beyond the administrative limits of the city, has a
population of 2.1 million in an area of 389 km2 (150 sq mi), making it the
second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a gamma- level
global city by the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Study Group, the only
Portuguese city besides Lisbon to be recognised as a global city.
Located along the Douro river estuary in Northern Portugal, Porto is one of the
oldest European centres, and its historical core was proclaimed a World
Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996. The western part of its urban area extends to
the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean. Its settlement dates back many centuries,
when it was an outpost of the Roman Empire. One of Portugal's internationally
famous exports, port wine, is named after Porto, since the metropolitan area,
and in particular the cellars of Vila Nova de Gaia, were responsible for the
packaging, transport and export of the fortified wine. In 2014 and 2017, Porto
was elected The Best European Destination by the Best European Destinations
Agency.ANT 2018 will be held in Madeira, a Portuguese archipelago. Madeira is a
popular year-round tourist destination, known for its remarkable mountainous
scenery and mild year-long climate. Although, Madeira is part of Europe it is
approximately 1,000 km from the continent while being only 520 km from the
coast of Africa. It is about an hour and a half flight from the capital of
Portugal, Lisbon. Funchal, the picturesque capital of Madeira, is situated on
the south coast of the island and one of Atlantic Oceans most popular cruise
ship ports. Madeira is a scenic island with many unique destinations such as
the Laurisilva forest, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
ANT-2018 will be held in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on
Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-18/).
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
Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences
Multimedia and Social Computing
Real-time Big Data Stream Mining Architecture
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
COMMITTEES
General Chairs
Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada
Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia
Program Chairs
Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA
Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, IMOB Ð Hasselt University, Belgium
Local Chair,
Jo‹o Carlos Pascoal Faria, Porto University, Portugal
Workshops Chair
Stephane Galland, UTBM, France Program
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
International Journals Chair
Javier Jesus Sanchez Medina, ULPGC, Spain
Vice Chars
Boulmakoul Azedine, Hassan II University, Morocco
Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK
Kechar Bouabdellah, Oran University, Algeria
Samia Bouzefrane, CEDRIC Lab, France
Lars Braubach, Hamburg University, Germany
Martine Collard, University of the French West Indies, France
Amine Dhraief, Manouba University, Tunisia
Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy
Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, France
Etienne Alain Feukeu, Vaal University of Technology, South Africa
Antonio Filieri, Imperial College London, England
Luk Knapen, Hasselt University Belgium
Flavio Lombardi, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy
Ahmed Nait Sidi Moh, University of Picardie Jules Verne, France
Francesco Pilla, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Cristina Seceleanu, MŠlardalen University, VŠsterŒs, Sweden
Khaled Shaaban, Qatar University, Qatar
Yves Vanrompay, Hasselt University, Belgium
Yun Zhou, Shaanxi Normal University, China
Publicity Chairs
Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium
Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Guelma University
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-18/#programCommittees
Steering Committee Chair and Founder of ANT
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
