[agents] [CFP] Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems (AITS at EPIA’2023)

[Alberto Fernández]

(Apologies for cross-posting)

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems (AITS)
https://epia2023.inesctec.pt/?page_id=715

Thematic Track of the 22nd EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence 
(EPIA 2023)
Faial Island, Azores, Portugal
September 5-8, 2023

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Submission deadline: April 16, 2023
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The 2023 AITS Thematic Track at EPIA will be the tenth edition of a 
series started in 2007. AITS aims to promote a debate on current 
developments and advancements of AI techniques in a rather practical 
perspective. It will gather both the AI community and transportation 
practitioners to discuss how cutting-edge AI technologies can be 
effectively applied to improve the performance of transportation systems 
and mobility in general on a sustainable basis, according to three 
important dimensions, namely economic, environmental, and social. This 
forum also aims 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, naturally including all sorts of 
mobility systems. Indeed, contemporary transportation is evolving 
rapidly on a more intelligent basis, and the concept of Intelligent 
Transportation Systems (ITSs) has become already a reality among us, 
supporting the infrastructure leading to the emergence of the so-called 
Smart Mobility, and to a whole bunch of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) 
solutions as we witness today. Also, when placed within the framework of 
Smart Cities, ITS increases in complexity and brings about new 
performance measures such as equity and social impact, privacy and 
security, ethical and legal compliance, and explainable 
decision-support, while environmental sustainability is strongly emphasised.

Therefore, this proposed track is within the application-oriented, 
integrative, and multi-disciplinary perspectives of the EPIA Conference 
series. It is intended to leverage the cross-fertilisation synergetic 
relationship between AI and ITSs. As a matter of fact, as in most fields 
of Science, advancements in theory are also inspired by problems 
identified by practitioners in their field of expertise. That is also 
true in AI! As in many multidisciplinary knowledge areas, many advances 
in AI are fostered through challenges found by scientists when applying 
theory to solve practical problems. The AITS Track series at EPIA has 
served also as a networking platform to discuss current developments and 
advances of AI, as well as how such findings might be practically 
applied to this challenging and inspiring domain.

This thematic track on AI in Transportation Systems is also organised 
and promoted by the technical activity subcommittee on Artificial 
Transportation Systems and Simulation (ATSS) of the IEEE ITS Society.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Different modes of transport and their interactions (air, road, rail 
and water transports)
- Intelligent and real-time traffic management and control
- Design, operation, timetabling and real-time control of logistics 
systems and freight transport
- Transport policy, planning, design and management
- Environmental issues, road pricing, security and safety
- Transport systems operation
- Application and management of new technologies in transport
- Travel demand analysis, prediction and transport marketing
- Advanced traveller information systems and services
- Ubiquitous transport technologies and ambient intelligence
- Pedestrian and crowd simulation and analysis
- Urban planning toward sustainable mobility
- Service oriented architectures for vehicle-to-vehicle and 
vehicle-to-infrastructure communications
- Assessment and evaluation of intelligent transportation technologies
- Human factors in intelligent vehicles
- Autonomous driving
- Artificial transportation systems and simulation
- Serious games and gamification in transportation
- Behaviour modelling and social simulation of transportation systems
- Electric mobility and its relationship with smart grids and the 
electricity market
- Computer vision in autonomous driving
- Surveillance and monitoring systems for transportation and pedestrians
- Data-driven preventive maintenance policies
- Anomalous trajectory mining and fraud detection
- Smart architectures for vehicle-to-vehicle/vehicle-to-infrastructure 
communications
- Automatic assessment and/or evaluation on the transport reliability 
(planning, control and other related policies)
- Intelligent transportation infrastructure management and maintenance
- Legal and ethical issues in intelligent transportation systems and 
smart mobility

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Submission and Reviewing
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- All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA 2023 
EasyChair submission page https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=epia2023
- Prospective authors should select the thematic track to which their 
paper is to be submitted.
The papers should be prepared according to the Springer LNCS format, 
with a maximum of 12 pages.
- Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process and 
will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the respective track 
Program Committee. It is the responsibility of the authors to remove 
names and affiliations from the submitted papers and to take reasonable 
care to assure anonymity during the review process.
- Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their 
proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation 
of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in 
their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, 
acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and 
sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the 
copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the 
paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to 
the authorship of the papers cannot be made.

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Proceedings and Presentations
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- Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings (a 
volume of Springer’s LNAI-Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), 
provided that at least one author is registered in EPIA 2023 by the 
early registration deadline.
- EPIA 2023 proceedings are indexed in Thomson Reuters ISI Web of 
Science, Scopus, DBLP and Google Scholar.
- Each accepted paper must be presented by one of the authors in a track 
session.

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Awards
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The conference will grant the following awards:
* Best Paper Award, for the best research paper presented at the conference.
* Best Student Paper Award, for the best research paper presented at the 
conference where the first author is a student.

Important: only papers that have been submitted to a thematic track and 
presented at the conference will be eligible for these awards.

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Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline April 16, 2023
Notification of paper acceptance May 9, 2023
Camera-ready papers deadline June 15, 2023
Conference dates September 5-8, 2023

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AITS at EPIA 2023 Organising Committee
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- Tania Fontes, INESC TEC, Portugal (tania.d.fontes at inesctec.pt)
- Alberto Fernandez, CETINIA, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain 
(alberto.fernandez at urjc.es)
- Rosaldo Rossetti, FEUP/LIACC, University of Porto, Portugal 
(rossetti at fe.up.pt)



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Alberto Fernández Gil
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Campus de Móstoles (Madrid), Spain
E-mail:alberto.fernandez at urjc.es  |www.ia.urjc.es/~afgil/
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