********************************************************************************** The 11th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN 2020) Date: November 2-5, 2020 Location: Madeira, Portugal Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-20/ ********************************************************************************** The 11th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN) is a premier venue for bringing together multi-disciplinary researchers, professionals and practitioners from both academia and industry, who are engaged in different facets of ubiquitous systems and pervasive networks. The conference encourages innovative research contributions providing the recent significant developments and promising future trends of EUSPN based applications, systems, tools, environments and infrastructures in the fields of EUSPN and related areas. Important Dates: -------------------- - Workshop Proposals: May 30, 2020 - Paper Submission Due: July 16, 2020 (FINAL) - Author Notification: August 2, 2020 - Final Manuscript Due: August 30, 2020 Publication ------------- All EUSPN 2020 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. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 1.901), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.524), (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index) - International Journal of Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice (IF: 4.371), 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) EUSPN 2020 will be held in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-20/). Papers on either completed or ongoing research are invited in the following and related tracks: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-20/call-for-papers.html EUSPN 2020 will be held in Madeira, a Portuguese archipelago. Madeira is a popular year-round tourist destination, known for its remarkable mountainous scenery and mild year-long climate. Although, Madeira is part of Europe it is approximately 1,000 km from the continent while being only 520 km from the coast of Africa. It is about an hour and a half flight from the capital of Portugal, Lisbon. Funchal, the picturesque capital of Madeira, is situated on the south coast of the island and one of Atlantic Oceans most popular cruise ship ports. Madeira is a scenic island with many unique destinations such as the Laurisilva forest, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Conference Tracks ============ - Ad hoc and Pervasive Networks - Adaptive Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications - Big Data and Big Data Science - Cloud, Fog, Edge Computing - Emerging Pervasive/Ubiquitous Technologies - Intelligent Traffic and Transportation Systems - Internet of Things - Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications - Security, Privacy, and Trust - Semantic Web Technologies Committees ======== General Chair Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK Program Chairs Nuno Varandas, F6S (Where Founders Grow Together), Portugal Ansar Yasar, Hasselt University, Belgium Local Arrangement Chairs Adelio Manuel Rodrigues Gaspar, University of Coimbra, Portugal Margarida Cerqueira, University of Aveiro, Portugal Workshops' Chair Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA Publicity Chairs Monika Davidekova, Comenius University, Slovakia Mohammed Elghzaoui, FP-UMI, Errachidia, Morocco Siddardha Kaja, Acadia University, Canada Orven E. Llantos, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines Program Vice Chairs El Arbi Abdellaoui Alaoui, EIGSI-Casablanca, Morocco Ahmad Afridi, Institute of Management Sciences, Pakistan Sajid Anwar, Institute of Management Sciences Peshawar, Pakistan Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK Kechar Bouabdellah, Oran University, Algeria Samia Bouzefrane, Cnam, Paris, France, France Monika Davidekova, Comenius University, Slovakia Mohammed Erritali, Sultane Moulay Slimane University, Morocco Stephane Galland, Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, France Faouzi Kammoun, Ecole Superieure Privee d'Ingenierie et de Technologies, Tunis Mohamad Khairi Ishak, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Yannis Korkontzelos, Edge Hill University, UK Flavio Lombardi, Universita Roma Tre, Italy Fernando Moreira, Universidade Portucalense, Portugal Euripides Petrakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Advisory Committee Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada Zygmunt J. Haas, Cornell University, USA Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands Peter Thomas, Manifesto Research, Australia Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-20/organizing-commitee.html