[agents] C&CA - 1st CFP

[Giuseppe Vizzari]

C&CA-2008
2nd International Workshop on
CROWDS & CELLULAR AUTOMATA

at 8th International Conference on Cellular Automata for
Research and Industry (ACRI 2008)
Yokohama National University - Yokohama (JAPAN)
September 23, 2008

Call for extended abstracts

Cellular Automata (CA) models have been a good source of scientific  
knowledge to face the
study and simulation of crowd dynamics behavior. It is an intrinsic  
multidisciplinary research
area, and the current literature involving CA and agent-based models  
is disseminated in a
vast range of conferences proceedings, journals and books belonging to  
different disciplines,
from physics to urban planning and psychology. Cellular Automata have  
found an application
in the research in crowd dynamics, pedestrian behaviour, traffic  
models, urban planning,
structural social self-organization, voting, opinion formation, market  
dynamics, trading,
collective beliefs, knowledge diffusion, emotional contagion etc.
The main goal of this Second International Workshop is to enable a  
meeting for researchers
coming from different disciplines and using Cellular Automata and CA- 
based computational
models for the modeling and simulation of the dynamical behavior of  
the crowds, pedestrians,
societies and worlds.
The workshop is open also to all issues related to the adoption of  
computer simulation as a
tool for crowds’ studies, compared to a CA approach. Application  
demonstrations and
domain analyses are welcome. Overviews and states of the arts about  
social and
psychological aspects to be modelled following CA and Agent-based  
approaches of crowds
are also welcome.

Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

• crowd dynamics
• pedestrian behavior
• urban planning
• social self-organization
• voting
• opinion formation
• market dynamics
• trading
• collective beliefs
• rumors
• firm dynamics
• knowledge diffusion
• emotional contagion
• warfare
• competition
• religion
• coalitions
• social structures
• politics
• would-be worlds


Important Dates
Extended abstract submission:  March 25th 2008
Notification of acceptance:     April 15, 2008
Camera ready version:            May 1, 2008
Registration deadline:             May 1, 2008
Workshop:                              September 23, 2008

Paper submission format
Extended abstracts not exceeding 4 pages, written in English and  
complying with the LNCS Springer
format (www.springeronline.com/lncs) should be submitted  
electronically to
bandini at csai.disco.unimib.it.
Accepted works will be published in the ACRI 2008 proceedings  
published on the Springer series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. We are considering to select papers  
to be published in a special
issue of an International Journal.

Workshop Chairs

Stefania Bandini
CSAI - Complex Systems & Artificial Intelligence Research Center
University of Milano – Bicocca (ITALY)
bandini at csai.disco.unimib.it

Shin Morishita
Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences
Yokohama National University (JAPAN)
mshin at ynu.ac.jp

Katsuhiro Nishinari
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Faculty of Engineering - University of Tokyo (JAPAN)
tknishi at mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Program committee
• Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West of England – Bristol, UK)
• Jeffrey Adler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Troy, NY- USA)
• Stefania Bandini (University of Milano-Bicocca - Italy)
• Michael Batty (University College London - UK)
• Victor Blue (RKA – Poughkeepsie, NY - USA)
• Jan Dijkstra (Eindhoven University of Technology - The Netherlands)
• Mizar Luca Federici (MVA Consultancy Ltd. – London)
• Rainer Hegselmann (University of Bayreuth - Germany)
• Andrew Ilachinski (Center for Naval Analyses – Alexandria, VA - USA)
• Wander Jager (University of Groningen - The Netherlands)
• Nabeel Koshak (Umm Al-Qura University - Saudi Arabia)
• Sara Manzoni (University of Milano-Bicocca – Italy)
• Shin Morishita (Yokohama National University – Japan)
• Katsuhiro Nishinari (Tokyo University - Japan)
• Andreas Schadschneider (Institute of Theoretical Physics – Cologne,  
Germany)
• Michael Schreckenberg (University of Duisburg-Essen - Germany)
• Harry Timmermans (Technical University Eindhoven – The Netherlands)
• Giuseppe Vizzari (University of Milano-Bicocca - Italy)