=================LAST CALL FOR PAPERS OF AINA-2014===============

 The 28th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information
            Networking and Applications  (AINA-2014)
              http://www.aina-conference.org/2014/
            http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/aina/2014/
     Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee
                 on Distributed Processing (TCDP)
                       VICTORIA, CANADA
                       May 13-16, 2014

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission Deadline:   NOVEMBER 30, 2013 (EXTENDED, Hard Deadline)
Author Notification	January 24, 2014
Final Manuscript Due	February 21, 2014
Author Registration	February 21, 2014

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CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
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-SPONSORED by the TCDP of the IEEE Computer Society

-ACCEPTANCE RATE OF 20-25% IN ALL PAST EDITIONS

-PROCEEDINGS IEEE CPS, INDEXED IN ISI THOMPSON AND EI INDEXING SERVICES

-INTERESTING CONFERENCE PROGRAMME, WITH WORKSHOPS AND SYMPOSIUMS INCLUDED

-SPECIAL ISSUES IN TOP INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS 

-CHAPTERS IN SPRINGER BOOKS SERIES

-EXCELLENT SOCIAL EVENTS (WELCOME AND BANQUET) AND SOCIAL NETWORKING ACTIVITIES
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As one of the most important international conferences sponsored by
the TCDP of the IEEE Computer Society, the International Conference
on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2014) will
be held in Victoria, Canada, May 13-16, 2014. The conference covers
theory, design and application of computer networks and distributed
computing and information systems. Aside from the regular presentations,
the conference will include keynote addresses with speakers from both
industry and academia. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers
in any of the following areas (not limited to):

Communication Protocol and Architecture
High-speed Communication and Network
Wireless Communication and Network
Multimedia Communication and System
Personal Communication System
Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Network
Low-power Network and System
Wearable Network and System
Embedded System and Networking
Internet Technology and IP-based Applications
Network Control and Management
Network Performance, Analysis and Evaluation
Quality of Services (QoS)
Multicast Routing and Technology
Security, Privacy and Trust
Fault-tolerant and Dependable System
Multi-agent System and Applications
Parallel/Distributed Algorithm and Architecture
Distributed Database and Data Mining
Distributed Graphics and VR/AR/MR System
Distributed AI and Soft/Natural Computing
Biological Informatics and Computing
E-Learning, E-Commerce, E-Society, etc.
Grid, Cluster and Internet Computing
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) System
Service-oriented Framework and Middleware
Autonomic Computing and Communication
WWW, Semantic Web and Cyber World
Mobile and Context-aware Computing
Ubiquitous/Pervasive Networks and Computing
Ubiquitous Intelligence and Smart World
Smart Object, Space/Environment and System
Innovative Networking and Applications
Social, Ethical & Other Issues of Networked World
Network and Application Hardware
Cognitive Network Access
Digital Eco Systems

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PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
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Submit a full paper of at most 8 pages (IEEE Computer Society Proceedings
Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced), including figures and
references, using 10 fonts, and number each page. You can confirm the IEEE
Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page:
URL: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/submission.

EDAS Submission website:  http://edas.info/N14467

Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the
final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. The
proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press with 8 pages
for each paper. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are
requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise
their papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference.

Distinguished papers accepted and presented at the conference and also the
workshops of AINA-2014, after further revisions, will be published in
special issues of prestigious international journals.

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AINA-2014 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Co-Chairs
  Kin Fun Li, University of Victoria, Canada 
 Tomoya Enokido, Rissho University, Japan 
 Jong Hyuk Park, SeoulTech, Korea
 Antonio Gentile, University of Palermo, Italy

Program Committee Co-Chairs
  Alex Thomo, University of Victoria, Canada
  Takahiro Hara, Osata University, Japan
  Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK
  Wenny Rahayu, La Trobe University, Australia

Workshops Co-Chairs
   Fatos Xhafa, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
   Shengrui Wang, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
   Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan
   David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

Program Vice Chairs and Research Tracks

Communications Network and Protocols	
Tsang-Ling Sheu	National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Alex Galis	University College London, UK
 
Ad Hoc and Mesh Networks	
Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro	TELECOM Bretagne, France
Jianping Pan	University of Victoria, Canada
 
Sensor Networks	Akimitsu Kanzaki	
Osaka University, Japan
Wei Li	Telus Mobility, Canada
 
Mobile Networks and Applications	
Agustinus Borgy Waluyo	Monash University, Australia
Michael McGuire	University of Victoria, Canada
 
Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing	Waltenegus Dargie	
Tech. University of Dresden, Germany
Bessam Abdulrazak	University de Sherbrooke, Canada
 
Vehicular Networks and Applications	
Jinhua Guo	University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Hiroshi Shigeno	Keio University, Japan
 
Distributed and Parallel Systems	
Siegfried Benkner	University of Vienna, Austria
Ahmad Afsahi	Queens University, Canada
 
Distributed Database and Data Mining	
Mohamed Bouguessa	University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada
Lifei Chen	Fujian Normal University, China
 
Grid, P2P and Scalable Computing	
Kuan-Ching Li	Providence University, Taiwan
Hayato Yamana	Waseda University, Japan
 
Internet Computing and Web Applications	
Isaac Woungang	Ryerson University, Canada
George Ghinea	Brunel University, UK
 
Multimedia and Social Networking	
Shu Wu	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Eric Pardede	La Trobe University, Australia
 
Agents, Semantics and Intelligent Computing	
Giacomo Cabri	University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Tengke Xiong	SIAT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
 
Cloud and Services Computing	
Chunming Rong	University of Stavanger, Norway
Farshad Khunjush	Shiraz University, Iran
 
Security and Privacy	
Hiroaki Kikuchi	Meiji University, Japan
Venkatesh Srinivasan	University of Victoria, Canada
 
Autonomic and Trustworthy Computing/Networking	
Nur Zincir-Heywood	Dalhousie University, Canada
Watheq El-Kharashi	Ain Shams University, Egypt


International Special Issue Journal Co-Chairs
 Farookh Hussain, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
 Sang-Soo Yeo, Mokwon University, Korea
 Irfan Awan, Bradford University, UK
 Hiroshi Shigeno, Keio University, Japan

Award Co-Chairs
   Michael McGuire, University of Victoria, Canada
   Minoru Uehara, Toyo University, Japan
   Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy
   Markus Aleksy, ABB AG, Germany

Publicity Co-Chairs
   Darshika Perera, CMC Microsystems, Canada 
   Yoshitaka Shibata, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan  
   Arjan Durresi, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, USA
   Hiroaki Kikuchi, Tokai University, Japan

International Liaison Co-Chairs
   Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada
   Chunming Rong, University of Stavanger, Norway
   Akio Koyama, Yamagata University, Japan

Treasurer / Finance Co-Chairs
   Makoto Ikeda, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
   Valbona Barolli, Hosei University, Japan

Web Chairs
   Makoto Ikeda, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
   Elis Kulla, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
   Evjola Spaho, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan

Steering Committee Co-Chairs
   Makoto Takizawa, Hosei University, Japan
   Steering Committee Chair and Founder of AINA

   Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
   Steering Committee Co-Chair


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WORKSHOPS
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In conjunction with the AINA-2014 conference, a number of one-day
workshops will be held.

1	
The Seventh International Workshop on Information Technology for Innovative Services (ITIS-2014)
https://sites.google.com/site/iwitis/2014

2	
The Tenth International Symposium on Frontiers of Information Systems and Network Applications (FINA 2014) 
http://ktr01.ris.ac.jp/fina/2014/

3	
The Second International Workshop on Network Management and Monitoring (NetMM-2014)
http://events.telecom-sudparis.eu/netmm/2014/

4	
The International Workshop on Cloud Computing: Project and Initiatives (CCPI-2014)
http://ccpi.unina2.it 
5	
The Eighth International Workshop on Telecommunication Networking, Applications and Systems (TeNAS-2014)
https://sites.google.com/site/tenasorg/ 
6	
The Eighth International Symposuim on Security and Multimodality in Pervasive Environment (SMPE-2014)
http://web.ftrai.org/smpe2014/ 
7	
International Workshop on Pervasive Internet of Things and Smart Cities (PITSaC-2014)
http://ants.inf.um.es/pitsac
8	
The Third International Workshop on Networked Virtual Enterprises (NetVE-2014) 
http://netve.hueuni.edu.vn

9	
The Forth International Workshop on Protocols and Applications with Multi-Homing Support (PAMS-2014)
https://simula.no/pams2014

10	
International Workshop on Informatics for Intelligent Context-Aware Enterprise Systems (ICAES-2014)
https://sites.google.com/site/icaes14/

11	
The Tenth International Workshop on Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (HWISE-2014)
http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/hwise/2014/

12	
The Seventh International Workshop on Bio and Intelligent Computing (BICom-2014)
http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/BiCOM/2014/

13	
The Second International Workshop on Collaborative Enterprise Systems (COLLABES-2014)
http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~fatos/COLLABES2014/

14	
The Third IEEE International Workshop on Opportunistic Networking (WON-2014) 
http://www.scs.ryerson.ca/iwoungan/WON2014/ 
15	
The First International Workshop on Device Centric Cloud (DC2-2014) 
http://cpslab.skku.edu/DC2/
16	
The Second International Workshop on Engineering Object Oriented Parallel Software (EOOPS-2014)
http://krum.rz.uni-mannheim.de/EOOPS/ 
17	
The Seventh International Workshop on Data Management for Wireless and Pervasive Communications (DMWPC-2014)
http://www-nishio.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/conf/dmwpc/2014/ 
18	
The First International Workshop on Engineering Energy Efficient WSNs (EEEWSN-2014)
https://sites.google.com/site/eeewsn/home-1

19	
The Ninth International Workshop on the Performance Analysis and Enhancement of Wireless Networks (PAEWN-2014)
http://www.scim.brad.ac.uk/~iawan/PAEWN2014.htm 
20	
The Sixth International Workshop on Disaster and Emergency Information Network Systems (IWDENS-2014)
http://www.sb.soft.iwate-pu.ac.jp/AINA2014/iwdens2014/
21	
The Third International Workshop on inter-Clouds and Collective Intelligence (iCCI-2014)
http://www.derby.ac.uk/computing/research/call-for-papers/icci-2014/


Proceedings of the AINA-2014 workshops will be published by IEEE CPS. The
schedule of each workshop should follow the conference schedule.

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AINA-2014 SPECIAL ISSUES
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CONFIRMED:

"Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Elsevier"
Indexed by Science Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
	
"Mobile Information Systems, MIS"
Indexed by Science Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, Science Citation Index-Expanded, Compendex, ...

"International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining, IGI Global"
Indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded, Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, ...

"IJ Web and Grid Services - Inderscience"
Indexed by Science Citation Index (Thomson Reuters), Compendex (Elsevier), Scopus (Elsevier), DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, ...
	
"International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, Inderscience"
Indexed by Compendex (Elsevier), Scopus (Elsevier), DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, ACM Digital Library, ...

"International Journal of Space-Based and Situated Computing - InderScience"
Indexed by DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, Google Scholar, InfoTrac Custom Journals (Gale), Scirus (Elsevier), ...

PENDING CONFIRMATION:

WWW, SPRINGER
COMPUTER INTERFACES & STANDARDS, ELSEVIER
COMPUTING, SPRINGER
Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing (WCMC), WILEY

EXTENDED SELECTED PAPERS TO BE PUBLISHED ALSO AS CHAPTERS IN SPRINGER BOOK SERIES "STUDIES IN COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE"

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FURTHER INFORMATION
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For further information, please contact the steering committee chairs:

Leonard Barolli (barolli{at}fit.ac.jp), Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Makoto Takizawa (makoto.takizawa{at}computer.org), Hosei University, Japan