C A LL   F O R   P A P E R S

          The 3rd International Conference on Ambient Systems,
Networks and Technologies (ANT-2012)

                                              27-29 August, 2012
                                        Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

                      Conference Website:
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-12/
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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Full Paper Submission:      February 10, 2012
- Acceptance Notification:    April 10, 2012
- Camera-Ready Submission:    May 10, 2012


All ANT-2012 accepted papers will be printed in the conference
proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia
Computer Science series (on-line and CD). Procedia Computer Sciences
is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform
ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely
available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by
Scopus (http://www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei)
(http://www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex
(http://www.ei.org/compendex). The papers will contain linked
references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. All accepted papers
will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). Selected
papers will be invited for publication in special issues of
international journals.

Conference Tracks:
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- Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications
- Automatic Networks and Communications
- Data Management
- Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies
- Multimedia and Social Computing
- Multimodal Interfaces
- Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications
- Smart Environments and Applications
- Systems Security and Privacy
- Systems Software Engineering
- Vehicular Networks and Applications

COMMITTEES
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General Chairs
 Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
 Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia

Program Chairs
 Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada
 Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
 Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan

Advisory Committee
 Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada
 Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
 Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
 Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy
 Ralf Steinmetz, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
 Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia
 Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
 Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan

Workshops Chairs
 Senol Erdogan, Maltepe University, Turkey
 Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany

Program vice Chairs
 Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
 Jiang Li, Howard University, USA
 Tarek Sheltami, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
 Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia
 Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia
 Anis Koubaa, Al-Imam University, Saudi Arabia/CISTER Research Unit, Portugal
 Keivan Kian-Mehr, University of Western Ontario, Canada
 Tansel Ozyer, TOBB Econo & Tech University, Turkey
 Thomas Grill, University of Salzburg, Austria
 Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
 Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada
 Adnan Al-Anbuky, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
 Wail Mardini, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
 Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada
 Luis Javier Garc’a Villalba, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
 Agustinus Waluyo, Monash University, Australia
 Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada

International Journals Chair
 Nauman Aslam, Northumbria University, UK

Local Arrangement Chairs
 Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario, Canada
 Bessam Abdulrazak, Sherbrooke University, Canada

Publicity Chairs
 Weiwei Fang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
 Djamal Benslimane, Lyon 1 University, France
 Thais Regina de Moura Braga Silva, Federal University of Vicosa, Brazil

International Liaison Chairs
 Karim Djouani, South African Institute of Technology, South African
 Verdi Marchm, HP Labs Singapore, Singapore

Awards Chairs
 Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait
 Bernady Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo University, Japan

Steering Committee Chair
 Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada