ANT 2017
The 8th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2017)
in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT 2017)
The 8th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2017) is a leading international conference for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies related areas.
The goal of the ANT-2017 conference is to provide an international forum for scientists, engineers, and managers in academia, industry, and government to address recent research results and to present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences on all theoretical and practical issues arising in the ambient systems paradigm, infrastructures, models, and technologies that have significant contributions to the advancement of ambient systems theory, practices and their applications.
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 D 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 MZtiers, 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 D Hasselt University, Belgium
- Flavio Lombardi, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy
- Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA
- Nils Masuch, DAI D 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
Steering Committee Chair and Founder of ANT
- Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada