The 8th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2017) Madeira, Portugal May 16-19, 2017 Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-17/ *Important Dates =========== - Workshops Proposal Due: November 1, 2016 - Paper Submission Due: January 20, 2016 (FINAL) - Acceptance Notification: February 13, 2017 - Camera-Ready Submission: March 13, 2017 ANT 2017 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) - Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 2.430), by Elsevier ( http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/) - IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 1.547), by IEEE ( http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645) - Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (IF: 1.498), by Springer ( http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/779) ANT 2017 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-2017 will be held in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/seit-17/). Conference Tracks ============== - Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications - Automatic Networks and Communications - Big Data and Analytics - Cloud Computing - Context-awareness and Multimodal Interfaces - Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies - 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 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 Nuno Varandas, IPN Coimbra, Portugal 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, Edge Hill University, UK Kechar Bouabdellah, Oran University, Algeria Samia Bouzefrane,CEDRIC Lab Conservatoire National des Arts et MŽtiers, France Lars Braubach, Hamburg University, Germany Amine Dhraief, Manouba University, Tunisia Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy Antonio Filieri, Imperial College London, England Chaudhary Muhammad Imran, KSU, Saudi Arabia Nafaa Jabeur, GU Tech, Oman Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Luk Knapen, IMOB Ð Hasselt University, Belgium Flavio Lombardi, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA Nils Masuch, DAI Ð TU Berlin, Germany Ana C. R. Paiva, University of Porto, Portugal Francesco Pilla, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro, University of Paris 1, France Lo'ai Tawalbeh, Umm AlQura University, KSA Yves Vanrompay, Hasselt University, Belgium International Journals Chair Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Yongrui Qin, University of Huddersfield, UK Publicity Chairs Rui Din’s, Instituto de Telecomunica ›es, FCT-UNL, Lisbon, Portugal Sarmad Ullah Khan, CECOS University, Pakistan Josep Maria Salanova, CERT, Greece 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-17/#programCommittees Steering Committee Chair and Founder of ANT Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada