[agents] [CFP] ATSS @ IEEE ITSC'2013 - Special Session on Artificial Transportation Systems and Simulation - DEADLINE EXTENDED!

[Rosaldo Rossetti]

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CFP – ATSS @ ITSC'2013

Special Session on
Artificial Transportation Systems and Simulation: Innovative Trends

To be held at the
16th IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems
October 6 - 9, 2013 . The Hague, The Netherlands
(http://ieee-itsc13.org/)

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*DEADLINE EXTENDED TO: *** APRIL 15, 2013 ***
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* SPECIAL SESSION CODE: *** sg5au ***
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AIM AND SCOPE
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"Artificial Transportations Systems and Simulation: innovative trends"
follows up previous editions of Special Sessions and Workshops on
Artificial Transportation Systems and Simulation (ATSS) held at IEEE ITS
Conferences, supported and promoted by the IEEE ITS Society's ATSS
Technical Activities Sub-Committee. According to the current format of ATSS
Series, Special Sessions and Workshops are organised every two years, in
alternating occurrences every year. Therefore, the 2013 edition of the ATSS
Special Session follows up the Special Session held at IEEE ITSC 2011, in
Washington-DC, USA.

The aim of the ATSS Series is to foster the discussion on issues concerning
the development of Artificial Transportation Systems and Simulation as a
means to devise, test and validate ITS-based technologies. With the ability
to integrate different transportation models and solutions in a virtual
environment, ATSS serves as an aid to support decisions made by engineers
and practitioners in a controlled and safe manner. They also provide a
natural ground where new approaches can be experimented while avoiding
natural drawbacks of dealing directly with real critical domains, such as
ITS. On the basis of theories and methodologies borrowed from a wide
spectrum of disciplines, such as the Social Sciences, Distributed
Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Multi-agent Systems, Virtual Reality
and many others, some important issues arise which challenge and motivate
many researchers and practitioners from multidisciplinary fields, as well
as different technical and scientific communities.

Whereas workshops aim primarily at discussing in an informal environment
trends, work in progress and new ideas related to Artificial Transportation
Systems and Simulation, special sessions are intended to be focused on
specific developments and topics or problems within the field. In this
year’s edition of the Special Session, we encourage and welcome
contributions reporting on how the scientific community and practitioners
are further extending the concept of ATSS and on new features of Artificial
Transportation Systems to better support the design and analysis of
contemporary transportation and mobility systems.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The scientific community, as well as active practitioners in the field of
ATSS are being contacted and invited to submit contributions to this
special session. In addition, we would like to suggest the Conference’s
Programme Chair to include in this Special Session papers accepted to the
main conference that address issues such as:

* Agents, Multi-agent Systems applied to traffic and transport (MAS-T)
* Real agent architectures and agent-human interactions
* Environment modelling and interaction protocols
* Bio-inspired approaches to tackle ITS related problems and other
modelling metaphors
* Collaboration, cooperation, competition, coalitions in traffic and
transportation models
* Learning and adaptation in ITS
* Social Simulation and emergent behaviour
* Behavioural Modelling and Activity-based Analysis
* Large-scale simulation of agent-based microscopic traffic model
* Calibration and validation of agent-based models for traffic and
transportation
* Data mining and new sources
* Hardware and software-in-the-loop simulation
* Cyber-physical Systems approaches and implementations
* Environmental Modelling for ITS Deployment
* Geographic Information Systems in ATSS
* Human Factors in ITS


SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Although not compulsory, before submission deadline authors are kindly
asked to send the planned title of their papers, list of co-authors,
affiliations and contact person, by e-mail to the organisers, at their
earliest convenience and preferably by March 5th. For submission, authors
must follow the guidelines of IEEE ITS Conferences while preparing their
manuscripts; please, check the conference Web site for details. Submissions
must be made through the Papercept System, accessible via (
http://ieee-itsc13.org/index.php/call-for-papers). While submitting your
contribution, please follow the "Special Session Paper" type of submission,
and include the "Invited session identification code" provided below (with
no '*').

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Special Session papers will undergo the same intense and rigorous reviewing
process as regular papers do and submission is not a guarantee of
acceptance. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings
and indexed accordingly. Papers will be made available electronically in
the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, as well.


IMPORTANT DATES
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* Full-paper submission deadline: APRIL 15th, 2013
* Notification of acceptance: June 1st, 2013
* Final paper submission deadline: July 1st, 2013


ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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Dr. Rosaldo Rossetti (rossetti at fe.up.pt)
   LIACC, FEUP/DEI, University of Porto, Portugal

Dr. Ronghui Liu (R.Liu at its.leeds.ac.uk)
   ITS, University of Leeds, UK

Dr. Cristina Olaverri Monreal (olaverri at lfe.mw.tum.de)
   Institute of Ergonomics, Technische Universität München , Germany


INQUIRIES AND FURTHER INFORMATION
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Should you have any doubts, inquiries, or need further information, please
do not hesitate to contact Organising Committee members by e-mail.