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The 14th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications

August 19-21, 2019

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada  

http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-19/  

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Future Networks and Communications (FNC) research effort will help achieving a major promise of the emerging technologies such as, ubiquitous access to broadband, supporting vital applications in our daily lives such as health, energy consumption, environment transport, entertainment or education. The scope of FNC is the development of energy-efficient future network infrastructures that support the convergence and interoperability of heterogeneous mobile, wired and wireless broadband network technologies as enablers of the future Internet. This includes but not limited to ubiquitous fast broadband access and ultra-high speed end-to-end optical connectivity, supporting open services and innovative ambient applications. Scope also embraces novel and evolutionary approaches to tackle network architectures, taking due consideration of users and societal needs for success.



Important Dates

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- Workshop Proposal Due: February 15, 2019

- Paper Submission Due:    APRIL 18, 2019

- Acceptance Notification:   May 25, 2019

- Final Manuscript Due:      June 25, 2019



Publication

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All FNC 2019 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 following special issues:



- International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing  (IF: 1.588), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652)

- International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504), (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index)   

- IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 3.654), by IEEE (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645)



FNC 2019 will be held in conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-19/). 



FNC 2019 is co-organized & co-hosted by Acadia and Dalhousie Universities. FNC 2019 will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Halifax is located on the east coast of Canada and is approximately 6-hour flight from London, UK and a 2-hour flight from Toronto, Ontario. Halifax is a vibrant and modern city which is home to multiple academic institutions and where visitors can enjoy a variety of activities and entertainment from whale watching to Jazz festivals to world-class cuisine. Halifax is also home to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic which contains the world largest collection of Titanic artifacts. Nova Scotia is a picturesque province with many National and Provincial parks, and as stated in the Guinness Book of World Records, has the highest tides in the world.





COMMITTEES:

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General Chair

 Ladislav Hluchy, Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia 



Program Chairs

 Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA

 Ansar Yasar, IMOB - Hasselt University, Belgium



Local Chairs

 Maen Artimy, Dalhousie University, Canada

 Hassan Raza,, Dalhousie University, Canada



Workshops Chair

 Stephane Galland, Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, France



International Journals Chair 

 Atta Badii, Reading University, UK 



Publicity Chairs

 Wim Ectors, Hasselt University, Belgium

 Mohammed Erritali, University Sultane Moulay Slimane, Morocco



Advisory Committee

 Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada

 Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK

 Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada

 Zygmunt J. Haas, Cornell University, USA

 Philippe Martins, Telecom Paris Tech, France

 Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands

 David Taniar, Monash University, Australia



Technical Program Committee

  http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-19/#programCommittees