ATSS 2010 - 4th Workshop on Artificial Transportation Systems and Simulation

The aim of the ATSS Workshop series is to foster the discussion on issues concerning the development of Artificial Transportation Systems and Simulation as a means to devise, test and validate ITS-based technologies. With the ability to integrate different transportation models and solutions in a virtual environment, ATSS serve as an aid to support decisions made by engineers and practitioners in a controlled and safe manner. They also provide a natural ground where new approaches can be experimented while avoiding natural drawbacks of dealing directly with real critical domains, such as ITS. On the basis of theories and methodologies borrowed from a wide spectrum of disciplines, such as the Social Sciences, Distributed Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Multi-agent Systems, Virtual Reality and many others, many important issues arise which challenge and motivate many researchers and practitioners from multidisciplinary fields, as well as different technical and scientific communities.

Topics of Interest

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

Agent-based modelling and simulation;
Real agent architectures;
Hardware and software-in-the-loop simulation;
Agent-human interactions;
Environment modelling and interaction protocols;
Learning and adaptation;
Collaboration, cooperation, competition, coalitions in traffic and transportation models;
Social and emergent behaviour in MAS-T (multi-agent systems applied to traffic and transport);
Large scale simulation of agent-based microscopic traffic models;
Calibration and validation of agent-based models for traffic and transportation.
Paper Submission and Publication

The workshop welcomes and encourages contributions reporting on original research, work under development and experiments addressing and stimulating discussion on diverse issues on ATSS. Papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity, and those selected for presentation at the Workshop will be included in the ATSS Workshop local proceedings that will be made available to attendees during the Conference in the ITSC2010 Workshops/Tutorials CD/DVD format (containing papers, videos, presentations, and other sort of media). After the ATSS Workshop, authors will be invited to revise and improve their papers, including comments and suggestions gathered during the forum, for inclusion in the book "Advances in ATS," to be published by Springer.

Contributions are welcome as both short and long papers and must be electronically submitted in IEEE standard-format, in PDF files, for peer-review. Detailed submission instructions can be found on the Workshop Web site at www.fe.up.pt/ATSSseries/, under the Submissions option.