The 5th International Workshop on Agent-based Mobility, Traffic and Transportation Models, Methodologies and Applications (ABMTRANS-2016)

http://www.abmtrans.eu/
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-16/#workshop_approved

in conjunction with

The 7th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2016)
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-16/
May 23 - 26, 2016 Madrid, Spain

CALL FOR PAPERS : ANT-2016(MSTS) and ABMTRANS-2016

The ANT-2016 conference dedicates the MSTS track to Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences while the ABMTRANS-2016 workshop focuses on the agent-based approach in that domain. Both provide an international forum on the latest technologies and research in the field of traffic and transportation modeling. Both are organized by the Transportation Research Institute (IMOB), Hasselt University, Belgium.

SCOPE

The aim of the ANT-2016 MSTS track is to bring together communities interested in the computation, knowledge discovery and technology policy aspects of transportation systems. The organizers of ANT-2016 (MSTS track) welcomes papers from researchers in the domains of transportation sciences and engineering, computer science, urban and regional planning, civil engineering, geography, geo-informatics and related disciplines to submit papers for consideration for presentation and for publication in the conference proceedings.

The ABMTRANS workshop provides a multidisciplinary collaborative forum for researchers and practitioners to submit papers presenting new research results and novel ideas related to the theory or the practice of agent-based traffic and transportation modeling. This workshop also invites researchers to submit their work focusing on the data mining, management and configuration for agent-based traffic and transportation modeling.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Agent-based transportation modeling and simulation
Agent-based negotiation of QoS and SLAs in traffic and transportation models
Agent-based scheduling to establish synthetic agenda for day-to-day activities
Calibration and validation of agent-based models for traffic and transportation
Collaboration, cooperation, competition, coalitions in traffic and transportation models, including collaborative multi-modal transport
Conceptual modeling of agent-based approach
Data mining and statistical learning for travel information
Environment modeling and interaction protocols
Human-computer interfaces in intelligent transportation applications
Human factors including adaptive driving, travel behavior, persuasive technology
Large scale simulation of agent-based microscopic traffic models
Logistics and transportation management
Marketing decision support
Mathematical optimization in traffic engineering and smart city topic
Multi-modal routing of agents in a dynamic traffic environment
Novel applications targeted to health, mobility, livable environment and sustainability
Renewable energy sources in transportation
Role of multi-agent methodologies for complex systems
Simulation of traffic, passenger flows, assisted driving or collaborative transport
Social and emergent behavior in MAS-T (multi-agent systems applied to traffic and transport)
Social and institutional information related to travel
Traffic flow and transportation modeling
Travel information, including recommender systems and user feedback systems
Uncertain information in collaborative transport and assisted traveling

SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS

All ANT-2016 and ABMTRANS-2016 accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/).

The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org. If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date.

The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in ANT-2016 website (http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-16/ ).

For ANT-2016, submitted technical papers must be no longer than 8 pages for full papers and 5 pages for short papers including all figures, tables and references. Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically using the online conference management system ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ant2016 )in PDF format before the deadline (see Important Dates).

For ABMTRANS-2016 workshop papers, the number of pages is limited to 6 pages. Authors are requested to submit their contributions electronically in PDF format at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=abmtrans16 .

IMPORTANT DATES for ANT-2016

Submission due: January 30, 2016
Notification of acceptance: February 21, 2016
Camera-ready due: March 21, 2016
Conference: May 23-26, 2016

IMPORTANT DATES for ABMTRANS-2016

Submission due: January 30, 2016
Notification of acceptance: February 21, 2016
Camera-ready due: March 21, 2016
Workshop: May 23-26, 2016

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Bruno Kochan, IMOB - Hasselt University (Belgium)
Camille Kamga, University of New York (USA)
Davy Janssens, IMOB - Hasselt University (Belgium)
Davy Preuveneers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
Eric van Berkum, University of Twente (the Netherlands)
Filippo Simini, Bristol University (UK)
Harry Timmermans, Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands)
Irith Ben-Arroyo Hartman, University of Haifa (Israel)
Johan Holmgren, Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden)
Josep Maria Salanova, Center for Research and Technology Hellas (Greece)
Kai Nagel, TU Berlin (Germany)
Marco Luetzenberger, DAI-Labor (Germany)
Michal Jakob, Czech Technical University (Czech Republic)
Muhammad Usman, IMOB - Hasselt University (Belgium)
Nicole Ronald, University of Melbourne (AU)
Oded Cats, KTH Stockholm (Sweden)
Reinhilde D'Hulst, VITO (Belgium)
Stephane Galland, UTBM (France)
Theo Arentze, Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands)
Tom Bellemans, IMOB - Hasselt University (Belgium)

REGISTRATION

Please visit: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-16/#registration for more information.

VENUE, ACCOMMODATION & VISA REQUIREMENTS

Please visit: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-16/#conferenceVenue for more information.

ANT-2016 PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS

Prof. dr. Davy Janssens
Transportation Research Institute
Hasselt University, Belgium
davy.janssens at uhasselt.be

Prof. dr. ir. Tom Bellemans
Transportation Research Institute
Hasselt University, Belgium
tom.bellemans at uhasselt.be

Prof. dr. Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar
Transportation Research Institute
Hasselt University, Belgium
ansar.yasar at uhasselt.be

ABMTRANS-2016 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Prof. dr. Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar
Transportation Research Institute (IMOB)
Hasselt University, Belgium
ansar.yasar at uhasselt.be

ir. Luk Knapen
Transportation Research Institute (IMOB)
Hasselt University, Belgium
luk.knapen at uhasselt.be