Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2012)

         The 3rd International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2012)
       
                                             27-29 August, 2012
                                       Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

                            Website:http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-12/
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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Full Paper Submission:      February 29, 2012 (Extended)
- Acceptance Notification:    April 10, 2012
- Camera-Ready Submission:    May 10, 2012
- Workshops Proposals:        December 10, 2011

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
- General Track

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
Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer-Institut for Computer Graphics IGD, Germany
Jiang Li, Howard University, USA
Tarek Sheltami, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
Eric Pardede, La Trobe University, Australia
Irena Mlynkova, Charles University, Czech Republic
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
Mohyuddin, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Saudi Arabia
Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE
Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada
Abdallah Mhamed, Telecom SudParis, France
Wail Mardini, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada
Luis Javier Garc抋 Villalba, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Agustinus Waluyo, Monash University, Australia
Bharat Jayaraman, University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA
Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada
G. Ram Mohana Reddy, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India
Adnan Al-Anbuky, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

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
Wael M El-Medany, University of Bahrain, Bahrain

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

Agents Applied in Health Care

*7th Workshop on Agents Applied in Health Care*
http://deim.urv.cat/~itaka/workshops/aamas2012

To be held in conjunction with the
Eleventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
(AAMAS 2012, 4th-8th June 2012, Valencia, Spain)


/LATEST NEWS

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/.    If the quantity and quality of the papers submitted to the workshop is appropriate, those papers accepted for presentation at the workshop and presented in Valencia will be invited to present extended versions to a *special issue on agents applied in health care of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT)*, included in JCR.

.    Paper* submission deadline extended to February 28th* (this deadline will not be further extended)./

*Technical description*
Intelligent agent-based systems constitute one of the most exciting research areas in Artificial Intelligence. Due to the growing interest in the application of agent-based systems in health care, a number of applications addressing clinical problems are already based in agent technology. Thus, it may now be a good time for the specialists in the field to meet and report on the results achieved in this area, to discuss the benefits (and drawbacks) that agent-based systems may bring to medical domains, and also to provide a list of the research topics that should be tackled in the near future.

This workshop will try to incorporate two novel aspects with respect to related workshops held in the last years:

.    Interdisciplinary research: special efforts will be devoted to try to attract the attention of health care and biomedical specialists, so that they attend the workshop and realise the potential benefits of agent technology.
.    Applied research: the organising committee will also pay special attention to papers describing applications which are not just academic, but are already deployed and running in a real medical environment.

Current topics of research include personalized health systems for remote and autonomous tele-assistance, communication and co-operation between distributed intelligent agents to manage patient care, information agents that retrieve medical information from distributed repositories, intelligent and distributed data mining, and multi-agent systems that assist the doctors in the tasks of monitoring and diagnosis. Several methodological and technical problems have been discovered by the researchers that attempt to deploy agent-based systems in the medical area; just to name a few, the growing number of huge databases that need to be integrated (e.g. genetic data from next generation sequencing), the difficulty to integrate new agent-based systems with legacy software, the need to apply changing national and international laws and regulations concerning the privacy of medical data and the security of the transaction of patient information between agents.

*Submitted papers should address at least one of the following issues:*

.    Co-operation between intelligent agents to improve patient management (e.g. distributed patient scheduling).
.    Agents that provide autonomous and remote care delivery.
.    Agents that provide information about medical services.
.    Multi-agent systems for patient monitoring and diagnosis.
.    Successful applications of agents and multi-agent systems in health care.
.    MAS that improve medical training or education (e.g. tutoring systems).
.    Medical agent-based decision support systems.
.    Information agents that gather compile and organise medical data and knowledge available on Internet.
.    Solutions to the basic methodological and technological problems associated to the real deployment of health-care agent-based systems:
-    Security, privacy of medical data.
-    Social acceptance of agent-based systems.
-    Integration and use of medical ontologies.
-    Lack of centralised control.
-    Communication standards.
-    Integration with other types of software.
.    Legal and ethical issues related to the use of agents in health care.
.    Surveys providing an up to date view of the state of the art in the area of agents in health care.

Submissions must be formatted following the guidelines of the main AAMAS conference. Papers must not be longer than 10 pages.

The workshop organisers would appreciate that anyone intending to submit a paper to the workshop communicates this intention before February 1st to the workshop contact person.

*Previous editions of the workshop*
.    First edition - ECAI 2002 in Lyon, France. Expanded versions of selected papers published in a special issue of AI Communications (Ed: A.Moreno, 2003).
.    Second edition - ECAI 2004 in Valencia, Spain. Expanded versions of selected papers published in a special issue of AI Communications (Ed: J.Nealon, 2005).
.    Third edition - IJCAI 2005 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Expanded versions of selected papers published in a special issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems (Ed: A.Moreno, December 2006).
.    Fourth edition - ECAI 2006 in Riva del Garda, Italy. Expanded versions of selected papers published in a volume of the Whitestein series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing (December 2007).
.    Fifth edition - AAMAS 2008 in Estoril, Portugal.
.    Sixth edition - e-Health 2010 in Casablanca, Morocco. Papers published by Springer in a book of the series ICST Transactions on e-health.

*Preliminary workshop agenda *
The workshop will feature some of the following activities:
.    1-2 invited presentations by international experts in the field
.    Presentation of state-of-the-art papers with the latest developments in the field.
.    Possible demos of practical applications of MAS in health care.
.    Panel discussion of the main problems that have to be faced to deploy real agent-based health-care applications.

*Important dates*
.    February 28th, 2012: Deadline for paper submission (this deadline will not be further extended)
.    March 28th, 2012: Notifications of acceptance/rejection sent
.    April 10th, 2012: Deadline for sending camera-ready papers to workshop organisers.
.    June 4th or 5th, 2012: Workshop.
.    Autumn-Winter 2012:  Possibility of publishing revised and expanded versions of selected papers in a special issue of an appropriate scientific journal or book.

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Paper review process*
All the submitted papers will be revised by at least three members of the Program Committee. The main aspects to be reviewed will be originality, technical accuracy and relevance to the workshop.
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Post --proceedings: special issue in IJAIT*
If the quantity and quality of the papers submitted to the workshop is appropriate, those papers accepted for presentation at the workshop and presented in Valencia will be invited to present extended versions to a special issue on agents applied in health care of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT), included in JCR.

*Organising committee*
Antonio Moreno (contact person)
  University Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain.
  e-mail: antonio.moreno@urv.net
Ulises Cortés
  Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
Magí Lluch-Ariet
  Informatics Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain
David Isern
  University Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain.

*Scientific committee*
M.Beer, Sheffield Hallam Univ., UK
F.Grasso, Univ. of Liverpool, UK
A.Ilarramendi, Univ. of the Basque Country, Spain
P.Kostkova, City Univ., UK
L.Lhotska, Czech Technical Univ., Czech Republic
B.López, Univ. of Girona, Spain
M.Schumacher, Univ. of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland
A.Valls, Univ. Rovira i Virgili, Spain
L.Varga, ELTE University, Hungary

International Conference on Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2010)

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

The 8th @WAS International Conference on Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2010)

   8-10 November, 2010
      Paris, France

Conference Website: http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2010/
   email: momm2010@iiwas.org



*** IMPORTANT DATES ***
June 21, 2010 (EXTENDED)   : Full papers submission
August 30, 2010            : Acceptance Notification
September 15, 2010         : Camera-Ready Papers and Registration
November 08-10, 2010       : Conference


The speed and the quality of expanding and creating a vast variety of multimedia services like voice, email, short messages, Internet access, m-commerce, to mobile video conferencing, streaming video and audio has brought true mobile multimedia experiences to mobile customers. Due to constant changing environments, limited battery life and diverse data types, Mobile Multimedia implies considerable challenges to operators, infrastructure builders in terms of ensuring fast, reliable services and accommodating the quick growing global customer needs.
MoMM2010 aims to provide an international forum by researchers, students, and professionals for presenting recent research results on mobile computing and multimedia, and to bring together experts from both academia and industry for the exchange of ideas and discussion on future challenges in mobile computing and multimedia.


*** TOPICS OF INTEREST ***
Conference program will include invited talks, peer reviewed technical program, demos, short papers, posters, tutorials, panels, workshops and invited sessions on the same or related topics, industrial presentations, exhibitions around but not limited to the following topics:

Mobile Computing Track

- Mobile Applications & Services
- Mobile Computing Software Architectures
- Mobile Network Traffic Engineering, Performance & Optimization
- Wireless & Mobile Network Management and Service Infrastructure
- Database and Data Management Mobile Computing
- Regulatory and Societal Issues of Mobile Computing
- Mobile Computing Markets & Business Models
- Provisioning of Mobile Services
- Personalization, Privacy and Security in Mobile Computing
- Mobility and Location Management
- Transaction Processing in Mobile Environments
- Integration and Interworking of Wired and Wireless Networks 
- Distributed Systems Aspects of Mobile Computing 
- Operating System and Middleware Support for Mobile Computing 
- Security and Privacy of Mobile/Wireless Systems 

Multimedia Track

- Multimedia Databases
- Multimedia streaming and services
- Multimedia Coding and Encryption
- Multimedia for Learning
- Multimedia Description Language and Standard
- Image Clustering
- Content-Based Image Retrieval
- Interfaces for Multimedia Creation
- Media Fusion for Communication and Presentation
- Audio Analysis, Modeling, Processing and Transformation
- Video Analysis, Modeling, Processing and Transformation
- Video Mining and MPEG
- Image Modeling and Editing
- AI and Image Recognition
- Distributed Multimedia System

Mobile Multimedia Track

- Mobile Multimedia Applications & Services
- Communication and Cooperation through Mobile Multimedia
- Mobile Multimedia Software Architectures
- Wireless & Mobile Multimedia Network Management
- Mobile Multimedia Network Traffic Engineering & Optimization
- Enabling Infrastructures for Mobile Multimedia
- Regulatory and Societal Issues of Mobile Multimedia
- Mobile Multimedia Markets & Business Models
- Provisioning of Mobile Multimedia Services
- Personalization, Privacy and Security in Mobile Multimedia

*** PUBLICATION ***
MoMM2010 Proceedings will be published by ACM (pending approval) in cooperation with the Austrian Computer Society as a volume set in the books@ocg series and will be indexed and included in ACM Digital Library. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in special issues of :
[1] Journal of Mobile Multimedia 
[2] International Journal of Mobile Information Systems
[3] International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communication
[4] Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP)
[5] Springer Springer Multimedia Systems Journal (MSJ)
[6] International Journal of Wavelets, Multi-resolution and Information Processing (IJWMIP)
[7] … more to come


*** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ***
Papers must be submitted electronically in Postscript, PDF, or RTF/DOC format at (http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2010/)
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submitted papers will be blindly peer reviewed by at least three members of the international program committee and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by ACM (pending approval) and the Austrian Computer Society in books@ocg book series. The submitted papers should not exceed 8 pages and must follow the ACM guidelines (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates).

*** COMMITTES ***
http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2010/committee.html

*** ORGANIZATION ***
The conference is endorsed by the international organization for information integration and web based applications and services (@WAS) in cooperation with ACM SIGWEB (approval pending), hosted and organized by the University of Paris 8, France and supported by Monash University, Australia, La Trobe University, Australia and will be held in conjunction with the 12th international conference on Information Integration and Web-based applications & Services (iiWAS2010 - http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2010/).

*** CONTACT ***
David Taniar
@WAS Scientific Committee Chair
Clayton School of Information Technology
Monash University
Clayton, VIC 3800
Australia
Email: david@iiwas.org

Special Issue On Web-Based Enterprise Social Networks

International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering  
(IJITWE)
 
Special Issue On Web-Based Enterprise Social Networks
(http://www.igi-global.com/journals/details.asp?ID=4768&v=callForPapersSpecial)
 
Submission Due Date: May 2, 2010
 
Guest Editors
Yacine Atif
Youakim Badr
Youcef Baghdadi
Hamdi Yahyaoui
Zakaria Maamar
 
Introduction
With the popularity of Web-based applications, and widespread use of advanced mobile devices, socializing over the Web has become an integral part of our daily lives. Web 2.0 technologies have further fueled new collaborative applications leading to a new "social" dimension based on which new Web content is being produced and disseminated. This social dimension and new Web content developments led to a flurry of new applications and speculations on their potential to revolutionize future enterprises. Given how enthusiastically people have embraced social networks on the Web such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, new models of social networks could also have a room within the enterprise. Already, some enterprises have deployed many of them to increase collaboration and communication among employees. However, these dominating social-networking Web applications lack some tools that would make them truly efficient enterprise solutions. Sparked by consumer use, could social networks become an enterprise trend as well? Would market shares be influenced? Will employees adopt new practices with the infiltration of social networks in the enterprise? Do we need to deploy new tools/infrastructure/framework? How well this form of socialization benefit enterprises? Could it liberate workforces from the constraints of raditional emails? And, could social networks become a B2B phenomenon?
 
 
Objective of the Special Issue
This special issue provides a forum for addressing the innovative opportunities, which are emerging from the confluence of Web 2.0 developments and social network applications in enterprise contexts. In this special issue, we solicit visionary as well as technology and application papers, which address Web-based social networks implications on future enterprises. Particular emphasis will be given  
to papers discussing data sharing scenarios, novel technologies or methodologies for building and managing enterprise social networks. We also welcome contributions relating to particular types of applications as well as to cross-cutting issues. This special issue journal aims at catalyzing new collaborations between academia and business operators, focusing on next generation Web empowered enterprises, which incorporates new Web-based ideas of collaboration  
as well as consumers and business partners Web empowerment.
 
 
Recommended Topics
Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following:
 
- Web-based Social Network Design and Evolution
- Modeling social networks on the Web
- Web Architectures of social network
- Evolution and growth mechanisms of Web based social networks
- Online communities
- Information diffusion in social networks
- Recommendation models in Web-based the social network
- Web-based Social networking for enterprises
- Social network of agents, services, or resources on the Web
- Intelligence Emergence from Social Network
- Web based collaboration
- Web-based 3D environments (Second Life)
- Social Security and Trust
- Trustworthy social networks
- Security and privacy of social networks
- Anomaly detection in social network evolution
- Data protection in Web communities
- Modeling trust and reputation in Web ñbased social networks
- Misbehavior detection in communities
- Access control policies
- Intellectual property in Web 2.0
- Network geography
- Geographical clusters, networks, and innovation
- Web-based Social geography
- International Collaborations in e-Social networks
- Data and workflow provenance in Web 2.0
- Cloud computing
- Virtual worlds
- Evaluation
- Social networking management and monitoring
- Visualization of social networking on the Web
- Economical impact of social network discovery
- Web-enabled Social advertising
- Use of social networks for e-marketing.
- Search algorithms on social networks
- Web-based test collection
- Benchmark creation
- Measures and methodologies
- Data mining analysis of blogs
 
 
Submission
To view the full guidelines for submission, please visit the following page: http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guide.asp
 
All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of:
 
Dr. Yacine Atif
Point of Contact
Email: Yacine.Atif@uaeu.ac.ae
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SoftNet 2010

===== Call for Submissions =======

SoftNet 2010, August 22-27, 2010 - Nice, France

see: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/SoftNet10.html

SoftNet 2010 is a federated event focusing on advances topics concerning the networks, software engineering, testing, validation, and simulation. SoftNet 2010 continues the tradition of well-established conferences ICSEA and ICSNC, while complementing the topics with CENTRIC, VALID, and SIMUL.

Submission (full paper) new deadline: March 20, 2010.

Submissions must be electronically done using the 'Submit a Paper' link on the entry page of each conference.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: 
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html.

For details on the each conference's topics, see the individual Call for Papers for each conference.

Unpublished high quality contributions in terms of Regular papers and Posters or Work in Progress are welcome. Workshop proposals and Panel proposals on challenging topics are encouraged.

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA on-line Journals (http://www.iariajournals.org) and in Special issues of different journals mentioned on the entry page of each conference.

Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE Computer Society Press, posted in IEEE Digital Library, and indexed via all the IEEE indexing agreements.

All tracks/topics are open to both research and industry contributions.

-- ICSEA 2010, The Fifth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances 
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ICSEA10.html

-- ICSNC 2010, The Fifth International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications 
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ICSNC10.html

-- CENTRIC 2010, The Third International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services 
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/CENTRIC10.html

-- MultiA-Pro 2010, The First International Workshop on User Profiles in Multi-application Environments 
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/MultiAPro.html

-- EuroCAT 2010, 4th Workshop on Combining Context with Trust, Security, and Privacy 
http://www.cat10.uni.lu/index.html

-- VALID 2010, The Second International Conference on Advances in System Testing and Validation Lifecycle 
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/VALID10.html

-- SIMUL 2010, The Second International Conference on Advances in System Simulation 
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/SIMUL10.html


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