First International Workshop on Agent-based Modeling and
Simulation
of Cities (AgentCities14)
In conjunction with the 5th International Conference on
Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies ANT2014 (Hasselt,
Belgium)
June 2-5, 2014
http://www.multiagent.fr/Conferences:AgentCities14
DESCRIPTION
The modeling of the dynamics of the cities and their
population is of
great theoretical and practical interest. In the past
two-decade
research from a broad range of fields such as computer
graphics,
physics, robotics, energy, social science, safety science and
training
systems has created simulations involving collections of
elements
(individuals or devices) immersed in cities. Many works have
been
devoted to the study of collective behaviors and their
inherent
emergent properties such as spontaneous organizations of
pedestrians
into lines, oscillations at gates, etc. Among all the existing
approaches in simulation, those offering the highest level of
realism
in behavior are microscopic approaches because they explicitly
attempt
to model the features that take part in the expression of
specific
behaviors of individuals. Agent-Based Simulations (ABS) are
one of the
approaches to support micro-simulation. ABS principle relies
upon a
set of autonomous agents, which encapsulate the behaviors of
individual entities (pedestrians, vehicles, devices...)
Agent-based
modeling allows complex behaviors of various interacting
entities to
emerge from a set of simpler behaviors. Phenomena such as
flocks of
birds, schools of fish and
crowds are good examples of how systems with simple goals can
exhibit
emergent behaviors as the result of the interactions between
the
individuals. Moreover, in contrast to other micro-simulation
techniques, ABS allows to catch the variety of behaviors
composing a
real system easily. ABS has proven
to be well suited for the simulation of situations where there
is a
large number of heterogeneous individuals who may behave
somewhat
differently. However, as soon as we consider a
micro-simulation of
several agents and their relationships, the complexity of the
system
and associated computational costs increase. We are therefore
faced a
dilemma common in the field of simulation: to manage a
compromise
between performance and accuracy.
The goal of AgentCities is to provides a place where the
different
points of view on the modeling and the simulation of the
city's
dynamics may be discussed. A particular focus is made on
agent-based
models. The accepted application domains are various, from
crowds, to
smart grid, include transport and traffic
models.
AgentCities14 will be held in Hasselt, Belgium (
2-5
June 2014) in
conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Ambient
Systems,
Networks, and Technologies (ANT 2014).
TOPICS
* Methods and Models:
* Agent based Modeling and Simulation
* Holonic models
* Agent based Simulation of large scale urban systems
* Agent oriented analysis and design methods
* Ontologies and theories about large urban systems
* Smart city models
* Formal models of agent-based simulation
* Organizational models
* Applications:
* Traffic/Transport
* Crowds
* Smard grids and smart buildings
* Land-Use
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
* Stéphane GALLAND - IRTES-SET, Université de Technologie de
Belfort-Montbéliard, France
* Sebastian RODRIGUEZ (CITAT, Argentina)
* Nicolas GAUD (IRTES-SET, France)
IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission deadline:
February 2, 2014
* Notification:
March 1, 2014
* Final date for camera-ready copy:
April 4,
2014
* Workshop:
June 2-5, 2014
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (CONFIRMED)
* OLIVIER BOISSIER (High National School of Mines of
Saint-Etienne,
France)
* ALEXIS DROGOUL (IRD, Vietnam)VINCENT HILAIRE (University
of
Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard, France)
* TOM HOLVOET (University of Leuven, Belgium)
* ABDERRAFIAA KOUKAM (University of Technology of
Belfort-Montbéliard, France)
* SATHISH KUMAR (Coastal Carolina University, USA)
* RENÉ MANDIAU (University of Valenciennes and
Hainaut-CambrésisLinnaeus, France)
* FABIEN MICHEL (University of Montpellier 2, France)
* GILDAS MORVAN (University of Artois, France)
* MICHAEL SCHUMACHER (HES-SO, Switzerland)
* RENÉ SCHUMANN (HES-SO, Switzerland)
* DANY WEYNS (Linnaeus University, Sweden)
* ANSAR YASAR (University of Hasselt, Belgium)