*************************************************************************** The 14th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT) Leuven, Belgium March 15-17, 2023 *************************************************************************** Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-23/ Workshops: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-23/#workshop Important Dates - Workshops Proposals Due: September 15, 2022 - Paper Submission Due: November 15, 2022 (FINAL) - Acceptance Notification: December 12, 2022 - Camera-Ready Submission: January 9, 2023 ANT 2023 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/) ANT 2023 will be held in Leuven, Belgium. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world. Leuven's Town Hall is one of the best-known Gothic town halls worldwide and Leuven's pride and joy. It took three architects and thirty years to build it. Leuven's 'Hall of Fame' features 236 statues, which were only added to the façade after 1850. There are 220 men and 16 women in total. On the bottom floor are famous Leuven scientists, artists and historical figures, dressed in Burgundian garb. The first floor is reserved for the patron saints of the various parishes of Leuven. Above them the façade is adorned by the counts and dukes of Brabant while the towers primarily feature biblical figures. ANT 2023 will be held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry (EDI40). 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 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 Workshops Chair Stephane Galland, UTBM, France Industry Chair Youssef El Hansali, VITRONIC Machine Vision M.E LLC, UAE Vice Chairs Muhammad Adnan, Hasselt University, Belgium Manzoor Ahmed, Qingdao University, China Ayoub Bahnasse, Hassan II University, Morocco Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK Samia Bouzefrane, CEDRIC Lab Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, France Junsung Choi, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea Stefano Cresci, National Research Council, Italy Robertas Damasevicius, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Giovanni Da San Martino, University of Padua, Italy Roberto Di Pietro, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Solomiia Fedushko, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine Mohammad Ghanim, Ministry of Transport, Qatar Stefano Guarino, IAC-CNR Rome, Italy Faouzi Kammoun, Ecole Superieure Privee d'Ingenierie et de Technologies, Tunis Bouabdellah Kechar, Oran 1 Ahmed BenBella University, Algeria Manzoor Khan, UAEU, UAE Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada Natalia Kryvinska, University of Vienna, Austria Flavio Lombardi, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy Ka Lok Man, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China Yazan Mualla, UTBM, France Joy Ommer, KAJO Services, Finland Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda, Lodz University of Technology, Poland Khair Eddin Sabri, The University of Jordan, Jordan Cristina Seceleanu, Malardalen University, Sweden Khaled Shaaban, Utah Valley University, USA Kamran Siddique, Xiamen University Malaysia, Malaysia Mohamed Tabaa, EMSI, Morocco Igor Tchappi, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-23/#programCommittees Publicity Chairs Rachida AIT Abdelouahid, Hassan II University, Morocco Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium Siddardha Kaja, Air Canada, Canada Salam Traboulsi, University of Applied Sciences, Germany Farhan Ullah, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China International Journals Chairs 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 Steering Committee Chair and Founder of ANT Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada