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