[agents] CFP: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (AITS at EPIA2011)

[Matteo Vasirani]

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               ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
                                AITS at EPIA2011

                      A Thematic Track to be held at
      The 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA2011
                     October 10-13, Lisbon, Portugal
                        http://epia2011.appia.pt/
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                   SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 10, 2011

				
AIM AND SCOPE
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The Thematic Track on Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems
(AITS at EPIA2011) aims to promote an interdisciplinary debate on current
developments and advances of AI techniques in a rather practical 
perspective, focusing on transportation and mobility systems. This 
Thematic Track, in its 3rd edition, will act as a unique platform 
gathering the AI community, transportation and other social sciencesí 
practitioners to discuss how cutting-edge AI technologies can be 
effectively developed and applied to improve transportation performance 
towards sustainable systems. This forum is an opportunity for the 
technical and scientific community to present progresses
made so far, and as a means to generate new ideas towards building 
innovative applications of AI technologies into smarter, greener and 
safer transportation systems, stimulating contributions that emphasise 
on how theory and practice are effectively coupled to solve real-life 
problems in contemporary transportation.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The AITS Thematic Track welcomes and encourages contributions reporting 
on original research, work under development and experiments of 
different AI techniques, such as neural networks, biologically inspired 
approaches, evolutionary algorithms, knowledge-based and expert systems, 
case-based reasoning, fuzzy logics, intelligent agents and multi-agent 
systems, support vector regression, data mining and other 
pattern-recognition and optimisation techniques, as well as concepts 
such as ambient intelligence and ubiquitous computing, service-oriented 
architectures, and ontology, to address specific issues in contemporary 
transportation, which would include (but are not limited to):

* different modes of transport and their interactions (air, road, rail 
and water transports);
* intelligent  traffic management and control;
* transportation policy, planning, design and management;
* environmental issues, road pricing, security and safety;
* logistics and transportation systems operation;
* innovative technologies in transportation;
* travel demand analysis, prediction and transportation marketing;
* traveller information systems and services;
* ubiquitous transportation and ambient intelligence;
* pedestrian and crowd simulation and analysis;
* cooperative vehicle-infrastructure systems;
* autonomous driving and automated highway systems;
* modelling and simulation of transportation networks;
* assessment methodologies for ITS-based solutions; and,
* artificial transportation systems.


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND PUBLICATON
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Papers should not exceed fifteen (15) pages in length and must be 
formatted according to the information for LNCS authors. Papers must be 
submitted in PDF (Adobeís Portable Document Format) format and will not 
be accepted in any other format. Papers that exceed 15 pages or do not 
follow the LNCS guidelines risk being rejected automatically without a 
review. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the 
conference. More information about the Springerís Lecture Notes in 
Computer Science (LNCS) is available on the Springer LNCS Web site.
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

Papers of higher quality will be selected for publication in the main 
volume of the Conference Proceedings, to be published by Springer in 
their LNAI series.
The remaining accepted papers will be published in the local Conference
Proceedings, in hard-copy, on CD-ROM and on the web.

Further and up-to-date information can be found on the official web site 
of the conference at http://epia2011.appia.pt/.


IMPORTANT DATES
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* Deadline for paper submission: May 10, 2011
* Notification of paper acceptance: June 10, 2011
* Camera-ready papers due: July 1, 2011
* Conference dates: October 10-13, 2011


ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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* Rosaldo Rossetti, University of Porto, Portugal (rossetti at fe.up.pt)
* Elisabete ArsÈnio, National Laboratory of Civil Engineering, Portugal 
(elisabete.arsenio at lnec.pt)
* Jorge Lopes, Brisa Innovation / IST, Portugal (jlopes at brisa.pt)
* Matteo Vasirani, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain 
(matteo.vasirani at urjc.es)


INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (to be extended)
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* Adriana Giret, U.P. Valencia, Spain
* Alberto Fernández, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
* Ana Bazzan, UFRGS, Brazil
* António Castro, University of Porto, Portugal
* Carlos Lisboa Bento, University of Coimbra, Portugal
* Constantinos Antoniou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
* Cristina Olaverri, Instituto de Telecomunicaçoes, Portugal
* Danny Weyns, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
* Eduardo Camponogara, UFSC, Brazil
* Eugénio Oliveira, University of Porto, Portugal
* Federico Barber, U.P. Valencia, Spain
* Fei-Yue Wang, University of Arizona, USA
* Francisco Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
* Franziska Kl¸gl, ÷rebo University, Sweden
* Geert Wets, University of Hasselt, Belgium
* Giuseppe Vizzari, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
* Harry Timmermans, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
* Helen Ma, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
* Hilmi Berk Celikoglu, Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey
* Hussein Dia, AECOM, Australia
* José Manuel Menendez, UPM - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
* Jürgen Dunkel, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Hannover, 
Germany
* Jürgen Sauer, University of Oldenburg, Germany
* Luís Nunes, ISCTE, Portugal
* Luís Paulo Reis, University of Porto, Portugal
* Maite López Sánchez, University of Barcelona, Spain
* Miguel A. Salido, U.P. Valencia, Spain
* Ramachandran  Balakrishna, Caliper Corporation, USA
* Ronghui Liu, ITS/University of Leeds, UK
* Sascha Ossowski, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
* Shuming Tang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
* Vicent Botti, U.P. Valencia, Spain


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   Matteo Vasirani

   Área de Ciencia de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial
   Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid)

   E-mail: matteo.vasirani at urjc.es
   Web:    http://www.ia.urjc.es/~matteo
   Photos: http://socrates.escet.urjc.es/mateocondoblet
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