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* CALL FOR PAPERS
* Workshop on AGENTS IN TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORTATION (ATT) *
* @AAMAS 2008
* May, 12 or 13 - Estoril, Portugal
* http://ki.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~kluegl/att2008
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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 fifth of a series of workshops: 2000 (with selected papers
published by the journal **Transportation Research C**), 2001, 2004
(with proceedings published in a book by Birkhäuser and selected and
extended papers published in a special volume of Transportation
Research C), and 2006. For the 2008 we are starting negotiations
regarding publication of post-proceedings of extended versions.
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Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):
* agent-based applications in traffic, transportation, and logistics
* agent-based approaches to modelling driver behaviour
* coordination in multiagent transportation systems
* agent-based simulation of transportation systems
* intelligent peer-to-peer transportation systems
* mobile devices and agents in transportation systems
* collaborative driving
* autonomous driving
* agent-based pedestrian and crowd simulation
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Submission Details
Contributions should not exceed ten pages in English. Additional
formatting information will be given in time. Contributions should
carry the title, author(s) name(s), and affiliation including e-mail
address, and should include an abstract. Electronic submission is
highly recommended. Submissions are accepted as documents in PDF or
compressed PostScript, only.
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Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: January 25th, 2008
Notifications of acceptance/rejection: February 25th, 2008
Camera-ready copies due: March 3rd, 2008
Workshop Date: May 12 or 13, 2008
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Organizing Commitee
Ana L. C. Bazzan, UFRGS (Brazil)
bazzan[at]inf.ufrgs.br
Franziska Kluegl, Universitaet Wuerzburg (Germany)
kluegl[at] informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
Sascha Ossowski, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain)
sascha.ossowski[at]urjc.es
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