*************************************************************************** The 15th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT) Hasselt, Belgium April 23-25, 2024 *************************************************************************** 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: November 20, 2023 - 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-... ) 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 -- *Ali Benzerbadj * *Lecturer, University of Ain Temouchent* *Ain Temouchent, Algeria* *Research Laboratory in Industrial Computing and Networks (RIIR)* *Research team :"Networks and QoS"* University of Oran 1 Ahmed Ben Bella, Oran, Algeria Mob(s): +213 6 61622162 E-mail(s):.benzerbadj@univ-temouchent.edu.dz <ali.benzerbadj@univ-temouchent.edu.dz>, ali_benz@yahoo.fr,