The 13th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT)
Porto, Portugal
March 22-25, 2022

Conference Website: (http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-22/)
Workshops: (http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-22/#workshop)
Tutorials: (http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-22/#tutorial)

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Important Dates
- Workshops Proposals Due: October 1, 2021
- Paper Submission Due: November 1, 2021
- Acceptance Notification: December 30, 2021
- Camera-Ready Submission: January 27, 2022

ANT 2022 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-practice/)
- International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.524), by Computing and Informatics (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index)


ANT 2022 will be held in Porto, Portugal. Porto is the second-largest city in Portugal after Lisbon and one of the major urban areas of the Iberian Peninsula. Porto is also called the Invicta because during the 19th century Portuguese civil war, the city withstood a siege of over a year.The urban area of Porto, which extends beyond the administrative limits of the city, has a population of 2.1 million in an area of 389 km2 (150 sq mi), making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a gamma- level global city by the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Study Group, the only Portuguese city besides Lisbon to be recognized as a global city.
ANT 2022 will be held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry 4.0 (EDI40).

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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

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Committees
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, IMOB, Hasselt University, Belgium

Local Chair
Nuno Varandas, F6S (Where Founders Grow Together), Portugal

Workshops Chair
Stephane Galland, UTBM, France Program

Vice Chairs
Muhammad Adnan, Hasselt University Belgium
Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK
Azedine Boulmakoul, Hassan II University, Morocco
Samia Bouzefrane, CEDRIC Lab Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France
Stefano Cresci, National Research Council, Italy
Robertas Damasevicius, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
Roberto Di Pietro, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
Elsayed Mohamed Abdelkareem Elalfy, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
Redha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada
Faouzi Kammoun, Ecole Supérieure Privée d'Ingénierie et de Technologies, Tunis
Bouabdellah Kechar, Oran 1 Ahmed BenBella University, Algeria
Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria
Flavio Lombardi, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy
Vuk Marojevic, Mississippi State University, USA
Ahmed Nait Sidi Moh, University of Picardie Jules Verne, France
Aneta Poniszewska-Marańda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland
Cristina Seceleanu, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Miguel Sepulcre, Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, Spain
Khaled Shaaban, University of Central Florida, USA
Javid Taheri, Karlstad University, Sweden

Publicity Chairs
Hana Gharrad, Hasselt University, Belgium
Siddardha Kaja, Acadia University, Canada
Aneta Poniszewska-Marańda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland
Josep-Maria Salanova, CERTH, Greece

International Journals Chair
Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA
Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia

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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

Technical Program Committee
(http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-22/#programCommittees)

Steering Committee Chair and Founder of ANT
Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada