[agents] 2nd CfP: ATT2010: Agents in Traffic and Transportation - deadline: Feb. 2nd

[Franziska Klügl]

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* CALL FOR PAPERS
* 6th Workshop on AGENTS IN TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORTATION @ AAMAS 2010
* May, 10 or 11 - Toronto, Canada
* http://www.ia.urjc.es/att2010
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Building effective and user-friendly transportation systems is one of
the big challenges for engineers in the 21st century. The rapid change
of location, enabled by plane, high-speed rail, sea and road travel,
has constantly become easier and more natural.  These days we travel
without any of the difficulties that accompanied taking a trip less
than a century ago. All we have to do is to organize and to pick up
the transport mode that comes closest to our objectives. In much the
same way, many new opportunities for the delivery of goods are being
explored and commercially exploited.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners
together in order to set up visions on how agent technology can be and
is used for today's isolated IT-tools so as to model, simulate, and
manage large-scale complex transportation systems.  Therefore, we are
interested in research papers, case studies and practitioners' reports
on the implementation and use of Autonomous Agents in all areas
related to transportation, traffic and logistics. Besides running
real-world applications, we are also interested in papers concerning
demonstrators or testbed that are still under development.  Conceptual
papers and those reporting on particular components of transportation
systems are also welcome.

This is the sixth of a series of workshops: 2000 (with selected papers 
published
by the journal *Transportation Research C*), 2001, 2004 (with proceedings
published in a book by Birkhäuser and selected and extended papers published
in a special volume of Transportation Research C), 2006 and 2008 
(extended papers
published in Transportation Research C). Also for 2010 a publication of
selected extended versions of workshop papers in a special issue of an
acknowledged traffic related journal, such as TRC, is planned.
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Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):
- Applications of multiagent technology in traffic, transportation, and 
transport logistics
- coordination in multiagent transportation systems
- agent-based traffic control
- Distributed decision making in traffic, transportation and transport 
logistics
- multi-agent systems for intelligent vehicles
- mobile devices and agents in transportation systems
- intelligent monitoring of transportation systems using agents
- intelligent peer-to-peer transportation systems
- data collection, filtering and distribution of traffic information,
   resp. transportation data maintained by agents
- autonomous vehicles and collaborative driving
- cognitive approaches to modeling traffic participants
- Machine learning approaches to transportation systems
- agent-based approaches to modelling driver behaviour
- agent-based simulation of traffic and transportation systems
- agent-based pedestrian and crowd simulation
- future technologies: opportunities for multiagent systems

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Submission Details

Contributions should not exceed ten pages in English. For preparation of 
papers to
be submitted please use the ACM template and follow the formatting
instructions for authors available  at the
AAMAS-2010 website.
Contributions should carry the title, author(s) name(s), and affiliation
including e-mail address, and should include an abstract.
Electronic submission via the conference management system
(https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=att2010)
is mandatory. Submissions are accepted as documents in PDF or compressed
PostScript, only.

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Important Dates

Electronic Abstract Submission: January, 29th, 2010
Paper Submission Deadline: February 2nd, 2010
Notifications of Acceptance/Rejection:  March, 2nd, 2010
Camera-ready copies due: March 16th, 2010
Workshop Date: May 10 or 11, 2010

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Organizing Commitee

Franziska Kluegl, Örebro Universitet (Sweden)
franziska.klugl[]oru.se

Sascha Ossowski, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain)
sascha.ossowski[]urjc.es

Pr. Brahim Chaib-draa, P. Eng., Université Laval (Canada)
brahim.chaib-draa[]ift.ulaval.ca

Ana L. C. Bazzan, UFRGS (Brazil)
bazzan[]inf.ufrgs.br


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