http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/
ANT 2013 will be held in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada. Halifax is located on the far eastern coast of Canada and is approximately a 6-hour flight from London, UK and a 2-hour flight from Toronto, Ontario. Halifax is a vibrant and modern city which is home to multiple academic institutions and where visitors can enjoy a variety of activities and entertainment from whale watching to Jazz festivals to world-class cuisine. Halifax is also home to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic which contains the world largest collection of Titanic artifacts. Nova Scotia is a picturesque province with many National and Provincial parks, and as stated in the Guinness Book of World Records, has the highest tides in the world.
ANT-2013 will be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Sustainable Energy Information Technology (SEIT, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/SEIT-13/).
Conference Tracks:
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– Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications
– Automatic Networks and Communications
– Cloud Computing
– Data Management
– Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies
– Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications
– Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences
– 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
– General Track
COMMITTEES
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General Chairs
Nick Cercone, York University, Canada
Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia
Program Chairs
Karim Djouani, South African Institute of Technology, South Africa
Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia
Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
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
Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
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
Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, Hasselt University, Belgium
Weiwei Fang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Program vice Chairs
Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer-Institut for Computer Graphics IGD, Germany
Senol Erdogan, Maltepe University, Turkey
Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy
Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia
Irena Mlynkova, Charles University, Czech Republic
Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA
Jiang Li, Howard University, USA
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
Davy Janssens, Hasselt University, Belgium
Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, Hasselt University, Belgium
Tom Bellemans, Hasselt University, Belgium
Keivan Kian-Mehr, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Mohsen Afsharchi, University of Zanjan, Iran
Mohyuddin, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Saudi Arabia
Walid Chainbi, University of Sousse, Tunis
Nauman Aslam, Northumbria University, UK
Bessam Abdulrazak, Sherbrooke University, Canada
Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada
Bharat Jayaraman, University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA
Jayaraj Poroor, Amrita University, India
Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada
Lyes Khoukhi, University of Troy, France
Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK
Navonil Mustafee, Swansea University, UK
International Journals Chairs
Jing He, Victoria University, Australia
Jian Yu, Swinburne University, Australia
Local Arrangement Chairs
Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada
Janet Light, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario, Canada
Bessam Abdulrazak, Sherbrooke University, Canada
Publicity Chairs
Agustinus Waluyo, Monash University, Australia
Muhammad Imran, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Wael M El-Medany, University of Bahrain, Bahrain
International Liaison Chairs
Maytham Safar, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research Center, Germany
Adnan Al-Anbuky, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Steering Committee
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada
Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University
Rainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
Hossam Hassanein, Queen’s University, Canada
Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
Tarek Sheltami, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
Abdelfettah Belghith, University of Manouba, Tunisia
Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
