[agents] Extended deadline for AgentCities14

[Stéphane GALLAND]

          **Deadline has been extended to February, 15th.
          **

[Apologies for duplicates]




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FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON AGENT-BASED MODELING AND SIMULATION *
*OF CITIES (AGENTCITIES14) *

In conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Ambient Systems, 
Networks, and Technologies ANT2014 (Hasselt, Belgium)
June 2-5, 2014
http://www.multiagent.fr/Conferences:AgentCities14

* DESCRIPTION *
The modeling of the dynamics of the cities and their population is of 
great theoretical and practical interest. In the past two-decade 
research from a broad range of fields such as computer graphics, 
physics, robotics, energy, social science, safety science and training 
systems has created simulations involving collections of elements 
(individuals or devices) immersed in cities. Many works have been 
devoted to the study of collective behaviors and their inherent
emergent properties such as spontaneous organizations of pedestrians 
into lines, oscillations at gates, etc. Among all the existing 
approaches in simulation, those offering the highest level of realism in 
behavior are microscopic approaches because they explicitly attempt to 
model the features that take part in the expression of specific 
behaviors of individuals. Agent-Based Simulations (ABS) are one of the 
approaches to support micro-simulation. ABS principle relies upon a set 
of autonomous agents, which encapsulate the behaviors of individual 
entities (pedestrians, vehicles, devices...) Agent-based modeling allows 
complex behaviors of various interacting entities to emerge from a set 
of simpler behaviors. Phenomena such as flocks of birds, schools of fish 
and
crowds are good examples of how systems with simple goals can exhibit 
emergent behaviors as the result of the interactions between the 
individuals. Moreover, in contrast to other micro-simulation techniques, 
ABS allows to catch the variety of behaviors composing a real system 
easily. ABS has proven
to be well suited for the simulation of situations where there is a 
large number of heterogeneous individuals who may behave somewhat 
differently. However, as soon as we consider a micro-simulation of 
several agents and their relationships, the complexity of the system and 
associated computational costs increase. We are therefore faced a 
dilemma common in the field of simulation: to manage a compromise 
between performance and accuracy.
The goal of AgentCities is to provides a place where the different 
points of view on the modeling and the simulation of the city's dynamics 
may be discussed. A particular focus is made on agent-based models. The 
accepted application domains are various, from crowds, to smart grid, 
include transport and traffic
models.

AgentCities14 will be held in Hasselt, Belgium (2-5 June 2014) in 
conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Ambient Systems, 
Networks, and Technologies (ANT 2014).

*TOPICS *

  * Methods and Models:
      o Agent based Modeling and Simulation
      o Holonic models
      o Agent based Simulation of large scale urban systems
      o Agent oriented analysis and design methods
      o Ontologies and theories about large urban systems
      o Smart city models
      o Formal models of agent-based simulation
      o Organizational models
  * Applications:
      o Traffic/Transport
      o Crowds
      o Smard grids and smart buildings
      o Land-Use

*WORKSHOP CHAIRS *

  * Stéphane GALLAND - IRTES-SET, Université de Technologie de
    Belfort-Montbéliard, France
  * Sebastian RODRIGUEZ (GITIA, Argentina)
  * Nicolas GAUD (IRTES-SET, France)


*IMPORTANT DATES *

  * Submission deadline: February 15, 2014
  * Notification: March 10, 2014
  * Final date for camera-ready copy: April 4, 2014
  * Workshop: June 2-5, 2014


*PROGRAM COMMITTEE*

  * OLIVIER BOISSIER (High National School of Mines of Saint-Etienne,
    France)
  * ALEXIS DROGOUL (IRD, Vietnam)
  * VINCENT HILAIRE (University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard,
    France)
  * TOM HOLVOET (University of Leuven, Belgium)
  * ABDERRAFIAA KOUKAM (University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard,
    France)
  * SATHISH KUMAR (Coastal Carolina University, USA)
  * RENE MANDIAU (University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambrésis, France)
  * FABIEN MICHEL (University of Montpellier 2, France)
  * GILDAS MORVAN (University of Artois, France)
  * MICHAEL SCHUMACHER (HES-SO, Switzerland)
  * RENE SCHUMANN (HES-SO, Switzerland)
  * DANY WEYNS (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
  * ANSAR YASAR (University of Hasselt, Belgium)

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*Dr. habil. Stéphane GALLAND*
Associate Professor (HDR)
Multiagent Simulation Group

IRTES-SET, IRTES, UPR EA 7274.
Institut de Recherche sur les Transports, l’Énergie, et la Société.
Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard.
Rue Ernest Thierry-Mieg,
90010 Belfort Cedex, FRANCE

http://www.multiagent.fr/People:Galland_stephane
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