[agents] Cfp: Transportation Research Part C: Special Issue on “Agents in Traffic and Transportation”

[Vizzari Giuseppe]

Transportation Research Part C: Special Issue on “Agents in Traffic and Transportation”

The domain of traffic and transportation is characterized by problems that are geographically and functionally distributed: its subsystems have a high degree of autonomy, and typically we need to deal with settings characterized by a variety of dynamics, including real-time constraints and conflicting goals. Intelligent algorithms are growingly used in real world applications but open challenges are still present and they call for additional solutions for coping with the complexity of participating in traffic trying to maximize individual benefits, or managing the overall system trying to maximize the global welfare (while keeping in mind the self-interested nature of the participants to the overall system). Consequently, many applications in this domain can be adequately modelled using intelligent, autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. The growing interest of the multi-agent community in traffic and transportation domain meets the growing need of the traffic community for more secure, efficient, sustainable (i.e. resource-saving and ecological) transportation solutions. The insight that centralized solutions cannot deal with the complexity of modern transportation systems, is generally accepted. Decentralized, adaptive approaches are also at the core of research in autonomic approaches to transportation systems.

In this Special Issue we invite contributions that aim to understand, model, design or apply innovative solutions for traffic and transportation systems based on agent technologies and approaches.

Topics of interest for this issue include, but are not limited to, the following ones:
•	Applications of agents technology in traffic, transportation, and transport logistics
•	Autonomic transportation systems
•	Coordination in intelligent transportation systems
•	Intelligent, adaptive traffic control
•	Distributed decision making in traffic, transportation and transport logistics
•	Multiagent systems for intelligent vehicles
•	Multiagent learning for traffic and transportation systems
•	Mobile devices in smart transportation systems
•	Intelligent monitoring of transportation systems
•	Data collection, filtering and distribution of traffic information and transportation data
•	Autonomous vehicles and collaborative driving
•	Self- * properties of traffic systems
•	Multilevel goals and goal conflicts in traffic and transportation
•	Agent-based simulation of traffic and transportation systems
•	Agent-based pedestrian and crowd simulation


Important dates

•	Submission deadline – December 30, 2016
•	Author notification of first round of reviews – March, 2017
•	Author notification of second round of reviews (if needed) – July, 2017
•	Special issue completed – by the end of 2017

Submission via EES

All papers should be submitted via the Transportation Research Part C online submission system (http://ees.elsevier.com/trc). While submitting a paper to the special issue, please choose the article type “VSI:Agent technology". ” otherwise your submission will be handled as a regular manuscript. All submissions will go through the journal’s standard peer review process. Criteria for acceptance include originality, contribution, and scientific merit. For author guidelines, please visit the website of the journal at ‘http://ees.elsevier.com/trc’.

All inquiries: regarding this call for papers should be directed to Guest Editors listed below or to the Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Yafeng Yin at yafeng at ufl.edu or Dr. Giuseppe Vizzari "giuseppe.vizzari at unimib.it



Guest editors

Prof. Ana L. C. Bazzan
Instituto de Informática, UFRGS
Caixa Postal 15064
91501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
phone: + 55 51 3308 6824
fax: + 55 51 3308 7308
email: bazzan at inf.ufrgs.br

Prof. Franziska Klügl
School for Science and Technology, Örebro University
Fakultetsgatan 1
70182 Örebro, Sweden
Office: + 46 19 30 3925
Mobile: + 46 70 6689179
Email: franziska.klugl at oru.se

Prof. Sascha Ossowski
Centre for Intelligent Information Technology University Rey Juan Carlos
Calle Tulipán s/n
E28933 Móstoles (Madrid)
Phone: + 34 916647485
Fax: + 34 914888530
Email: sascha.ossowski at urjc.es

Prof. Giuseppe Vizzari
Complex Systems and Artificial Intelligence research centre Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication University of Milano – Bicocca
U14 Building - Viale Sarca 336
20126 Milan, Italy
Office: + 39 02 64487865
Email: giuseppe.vizzari at disco.unimib.it