ANT 2023

The 14th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies

The 14th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2023) is a leading international conference for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from all Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies related areas. ANT 2023 will be held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry (EDI40).

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.

All 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.

The goal of the ANT-2023 conference is to provide an international forum for scientists, engineers, and managers in academia, industry, and government to address recent research results and to present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences on all theoretical and practical issues arising in the ambient systems paradigm, infrastructures, models, and technologies that have significant contributions to the advancement of ambient systems theory, practices and their applications.

Agent Systems, Intelligent Computing and Applications

• - Adaptive agents
• - Agents architectures
• - Auctions and market-based systems
• - Collaborative multi-agent systems
• - Context models and context factors for ambient intelligence
• - Competitive multi-agent based systems
• - Cooperative multi-agent based systems
• - Evolutionary computation in ambient systems
• - Mobile agents
• - Modeling agents behaviors in ambient systems
• - Monitoring agents
• - Negotiating agents
• - Reasoning technology for ambient sensing
• - Robotics in ambient systems
• - Secure and trusted agents

Big Data and Analytics

• - (Big) Data governance
• - (Big) Data integration, replication and dissemination
• - Data as a service
• - Data cleansing and data transformation
• - Data quality, privacy and security
• - Data mining theories and applications
• - Data mobility and location management
• - Data replication, migration and dissemination
• - Data mobility and location management
• - Data personalization, privacy and security
• - Data science/Analytics/Data Mining: theories and applications
• - Database and data mining tools, devices and technologies
• - Database query processing
• - Distributed and parallel database
• - Enterprise Information Management and (Big) Data Architecture
• - Information retrieval and filtering
• - Metadata Management
• - Multimedia database
• - NoSQL databases
• - Requirements management and data modelling

Cloud Computing

• - Challenges and opportunities
• - Cloud computing architectures
• - Cloud ecosystem and evolution
• - Cloud federation and hybrid cloud infrastructure
• - Cloud services provisioning in mobile web
• - Cloud traffic characterization and measurements
• - Cloud-bridging and cloud-bursting
• - Collaboration in clouds
• - Data models for clouds
• - Design tools for cloud computing
• - Economic and business models for cloud computing
• - Energy efficiency and clouds
• - Green cloud networking
• - Infrastructure-as-a-service clouds
• - Innovative cloud applications and experiences
• - Internet routing of cloud data
• - Intra-cloud and inter-cloud networking
• - Mobile cloud networking
• - Mobile networks for cloud services
• - Modelling and evaluation of mobile cloud
• - Monitoring, management and maintenance of clouds
• - Reliability and availability in clouds
• - Resource distribution in clouds
• - Security, privacy, confidentiality in cloud networking

Context-awareness and Multimodal Interfaces

Human Computer Interaction

•        - Combining multiple interaction types
•        - Explicit and implicit interaction
•        - Human computer interaction standards and guidelines
•        - Intentional and unintentional interaction
•        - Mobile interaction
•        - Modeling interaction in ambient systems
•        - Uni-directional and bi-directional interaction
•        - User modeling for ambient systems

Context and Context Awareness

•        - Adaptive interfaces
•        - Cognitive and emotional awareness
•        - Context models
•        - Interaction awareness
•        - Situational context
•        - User context

Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies

• - Ad hoc mobile networks
• - Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications
• - Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology
• - Wireless Mesh Networks
• - Communication protocols (IEEE 802.15.4, ZigBee, 6LowPAN)
• - Autonomic Management and Operation
• - Domotics, Automotive Networks
• - Geographic routing
• - Localization and Tracking
• - Multimedia protocols & networking
• - Network applications & services
• - Optimization for Effective Communications
• - Peer-to-Peer Networks
• - Robotics and Multi-Robot Collaboration
• - Secure Multimedia Streaming and Transmission
• - QoS and Admission Control
• - Service Localization and Pervasiveness

Human Computer Interaction

• - Affective interfaces
• - Agent-based user interaction
• - Brain-computer Interaction
• - Collaborative interfaces
• - Education and learning-related technologies
• - Generation of multimodal content
• - Interaction in virtual reality
• - Modeling and prediction of user behavior
• - Multi-modal interfaces
• - Tangible interaction and computing
• - Usable Privacy Interfaces
• - User experience and performance
• - User-Adaptive interaction and personalization
• - Wearable, mobile and ubiquitous interfaces

Internet of Things (IoT)

• - Network architecture and design
• - Software architecture and middleware
• - Mobile internet of things services
• - Internet of things applications and services

Mobile Networks, Protocols and Applications

• - Cellular and mobile communications
• - Delay tolerant networks
• - Fault tolerance and availability of mobile services
• - Mobility modeling and management
• - Mobility protocols
• - Performance evaluation and analysis
• - Service level agreements
• - Testing and monitoring of mobile applications
• - Service level agreements

Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences

• - Collaborative transport, including collaborative multi-modal transport
• - Data mining and statistical learning for travel information
• - Human factors including adaptive driving, travel behaviour, persuasive technology
• - Human-computer interfaces in intelligent transportation applications
• - Logistics and transportation management
• - Mathematical optimization in traffic engineering
• - Novel applications targeted to health, mobility, liveability and sustainability
• - Renewable energy sources in transportation
• - Simulation of traffic, passenger flows, assisted driving or collaborative transport
• - Social and institutional information related to travel
• - Traffic flow and transportation model
• - Travel information, including recommender systems and user feedback systems
• - Uncertain information in collaborative transport and assisted traveling

Multimedia and Social Computing

• - Applications of social network analysis
• - Contextual social network analysis
• - Evolution of communities in the Web
• - Personalization for search and for social interaction
• - Recommendation networks
• - Temporal analysis on social networks topologies
• - Web community

Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications

• - Automated and adaptive services
• - Cluster systems
• - Design, testing and Evaluation tools in service computing
• - Grid systems
• - Inferred environmental data
• - Integration of pervasive computing systems
• - Interaction and management
• - Intersections of service-oriented computing with other research areas.
• - Ontology matching for service discovery, negotiation, orchestration, composition & execution
• - Pervasive services & applications
• - Pervasive communications
• - Pervasive infrastructure and development
• - Platforms, middleware systems and services
• - Power aware computing
• - Quality of service in service computing
• - Security aspects in service-based applications
• - Semantic Web services
• - Sensing systems
• - Service management and protocols
• - Service-oriented architecture
• - Service-oriented software engineering
• - Service system technology
• - Service-oriented applications
• - System support infrastructures and services
• - Ubiquitous web services

Smart, Sustainable Cities and Climate Change Management

• - Assessment of Directives for climate and air quality
• - Alternative economic models for smarter and more resilient cities
• - Change-proof cities: integrated adaptation strategies for resilience building
• - Exploring the future: modelling of climatic and socio-economic changes
• - Green & cold roofs in cities and climate change management
• - Increasing awareness of climate related risks in cities
• - Management of weather and climate risks in urban areas
• - Mitigation of urban weather impact risks
• - Preparedness for climate risks and extreme weather in urban areas
• - Reducing heating and cooling energy use in shopping centres
•        (too warm in winter, cool in summer for customers)
• - Reducing vulnerability in cites
• - Smart city governance
• - Smart solutions in business to consumer or peer-to-peer sharing services of e-bikes and
•        hydrogen and electricity powered cars and their integration to public transportation system
• - Urban Heat Island and climate change

Smart Environments and Applications

• - Ambient assisted living
• - Modelling smart environments
• - Smart cards, factories, objects, classrooms, homes
• - Smart hospitals, schools, vehicles, hyperspace
• - Smart cars, smart cities, smart urban environments
• - Smart media environments
• - Smart Web services
• - Trust and security
• - Virtual environments

Systems Security and Privacy

• - Ambient trust platforms
• - Asset protection
• - Authentications techniques for ambient systems
• - Cryptographic protocols
• - Denial of services attacks
• - Intrusion detection and prevention systems
• - Privacy and security issues and policies in ambient system
• - Rights managements for ambient systems
• - Security approaches and mechanisms
• - Security architecture
• - Secure coding
• - Security requirements for ambient systems
• - Smart cards
• - Trust management
• - Trust models and architectures

Systems Software Engineering

• - Agent-oriented software engineering
• - Ambient resource management
• - Architecture-centered development
• - Component-based design
• - Development processes
• - Evaluation, validation and verification of software systems
• - Frameworks and design patterns from ambient systems and networks
• - Hardware and software integration
• - Human computer interface
• - Innovative engineering paradigms
• - Methods and techniques for designing, analyzing and building systems
• - New software engineering methodologies
• - Quality and reliability of ambient software systems
• - Quality management and assurance
• - Re-engineering and reverse engineering
• - Software maintenance
• - Software quality
• - Testing of software systems
• - Tools for designing, analyzing and building systems
• Vehicular Networks and Applications
• - Aerial communications and networking
• - Antennas for vehicular networks
• - Applications of vehicular networks
• - Architecture, algorithms and protocols for data dissemination in vehicular networks
• - Assessment of impact of vehicular networks on transportation efficiency and safety
• - Data dissemination issues in vehicular networking
• - Dependability of vehicular networks
• - Emission modelling and environmental impact assessment
• - Experimental systems for vehicular networks
• - Field operational tests and testbeds for vehicular networks
• - In-network processing and aggregation
• - MAC layer issues in vehicular networking
• - Network and QoS management for vehicular networks
• - Networking with other road users
• - Physical layer and antenna technologies for vehicular networks
• - Physical layer issues for vehicular networking
• - Protocols for vehicular networks (MAC, routing, mobility management, etc.)
• - Radio resource management for vehicular networks
• - Regional requirements and their consequences
• - RF propagation models for vehicular networks
• - RF propagation models for vehicular networks
• - Routing in vehicular networks
• - Security and privacy in vehicular networks
• - Simulation and performance evaluation techniques for vehicular networks
• - Standardization and economical models for vehicular networks
• - Vehicle-infrastructure (V2I) communications
• - Vehicle-to-Vehicle communications (V2V)
• - Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET)
• - Vehicular network as a sensor network
• General Track: Distributed systems, networks and applications