The 9th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2018) Porto, Portugal May 8-11, 2018 Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/ Workshops: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/#workshop Tutorials: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-18/#tutorial Important Dates - Workshops Proposals Due: November 30, 2017 - Paper Submission Due: December 15, 2017 (Extended to December 31, 2017) - Acceptance Notification: February 5, 2018 - Camera-Ready Submission: March 5, 2018 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: 1.588), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (IF: 2.395), by Springer ( http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779) - IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 3.654), by IEEE ( http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645) - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IF: 3.724), by IEEE (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6979) 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 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 - 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 – Hasselt University, Belgium Local Chairs Ana C. R. Paiva, University of Porto, Portugal João C. P. Faria, University of Porto, 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 Chairs 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 Amine Dhraief, Manouba University, Tunisia Roberto Di Pietro, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Khalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, France Wael El-Medany, University of Bahrain, Bahrain Etienne Alain Feukeu, Vaal University of Technology, South Africa Antonio Filieri, Imperial College London, England Luk Knapen, Hasselt University Belgium Prashant Kumar, Surrey University, United Kingdom Flavio Lombardi, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy Ahmed Nait Sidi Moh, University of Picardie Jules Verne, France Cristina Seceleanu, Mälardalen University, Västerås, 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, Algeria Sarmad Ullah Khan, CECOS University, Pakistan 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