Agents in Traffic and Transportation

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* CALL FOR PAPERS                                                      *
* 7th Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation @AAMAS 2012     *
* 4 or 5 June 2012 - Valencia, Spain                                   *
* Website: http://www.ia.urjc.es/att2012                               *
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Building effective and user-friendly transportation systems is one of the
big challenges for engineers in the 21st century. The rapid change of
location, enabled by plane, high-speed rail, sea and road travel, has
constantly become easier and more natural.
These days we travel without any of the difficulties that accompanied
taking a trip less than a century ago. All we have to do is to organize
and to pick up the transport mode that comes closest to our objectives. In
much the same way, many new opportunities for the delivery of goods are
being explored and commercially exploited.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners
together in order to set up visions on how agent technology can be and is
used for today's isolated IT-tools so as to model, simulate, and manage
large-scale complex transportation systems. Therefore, we are interested
in research papers, case studies and practitioners' reports on the
implementation and use of Autonomous Agents in all areas related to
transportation, traffic and logistics. Besides running real-world
applications, we are also interested in papers concerning demonstrators or
testbed that are still under development. Conceptual papers and those
reporting on particular components of transportation systems are also
welcome.

This is the seventh of a well established series of workshops since  2000.
Most of them have published post-proceedings in special issues of journals
such as Transportation Research C.

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Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):

- applications of multiagent technology in traffic, transportation, and
transport logistics
- coordination in multiagent transportation systems
- agent-based traffic control
- distributed decision making in traffic, transportation and transport
logistics
- multi-agent systems for intelligent vehicles
- mobile devices and agents in transportation systems
- intelligent monitoring of transportation systems using agents
- data collection, filtering and distribution of traffic information
- autonomous vehicles and collaborative driving
- cognitive approaches to modeling traffic participants
- machine learning approaches to transportation systems
- agent-based approaches to modelling driver behaviour
- agent-based simulation of traffic and transportation systems
- agent-based pedestrian and crowd simulation
- future technologies: opportunities for multiagent systems
- vehicle2vehicle communication and multiagent systems
- requirements and issues involved in electromobility

For ATT2012 we specially encourage submissions on real-world applications
using a minimum of assumptions about future equipments and using novel
techniques from the area of Autonomic Traffic Control and Management.

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Submission Details

Contributions should not exceed ten pages in English. For preparation of
papers to be submitted please use the IFAAMAS template and follow the
formatting instructions for authors available at the AAMAS-2012 website.
Contributions should carry the title, author(s) name(s), and affiliation
including e-mail address, and should include an abstract.

Electronic submission via the conference management system is mandatory:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=att2012

Submissions are accepted as documents in PDF only.

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Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: 28 February 2012
Notifications of acceptance/rejection:  27 March 2012
Camera-ready copies due: 10 April 2012
Workshop Date: 4 or 5 June 2012

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Organizing Committee

Matteo Vasirani, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain), matteo.vasirani@urjc.es

Eduardo Camponogara, Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil),
camponog@das.ufsc.br

Hiromitsu Hattori, Kyoto University (Japan), hatto@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Franziska Klügl, Örebro University (Sweden), franziska.klugl@oru.se

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