The 12th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT) Warsaw, Poland March 23-26, 2021 Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-21/ Workshops: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-21/#workshop Tutorials: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-21/#tutorial Important Dates - Workshops Proposals Due: October 1, 2020 - Paper Submission Due: November 1, 2020 - Acceptance Notification: December 30, 2020 - Camera-Ready Submission: January 27, 2021 ANT 2021 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 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 Computer and Telecommunications Networking (IF: 3.030) (Pending), Elsevier (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-networks) - International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.524), by Computing and Informatics (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index) ANT 2021 will be held in Warsaw, Poland. Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula River in east-central Poland and its population is officially estimated at 1.770 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.1 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 8th most-populous capital city in the European Union. The city limits cover 516.9 square kilometres (199.6 sq mi), while the metropolitan area covers 6,100.43 square kilometres (2,355.39 sq mi). Warsaw is an alpha global city, a major international tourist destination, and a significant cultural, political and economic hub. Its historical Old Town was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. ANT 2021 will be held in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry 4.0 (EDI40, http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/edi40-21/). 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 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 Omar Alam, Trent University, Canada 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 Silvana Di Sabatino, University of Bologna, Italy Elsayed Mohamed Abdelkareem Elalfy, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia Jason Jaskolka, Carleton 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 Sony Guntuka, 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 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-21/#programCommittees Steering Committee Chair and Founder of ANT Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada