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<div align="center"><b>FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON AGENT-BASED
MODELING AND SIMULATION
</b><br>
<b>OF CITIES (AGENTCITIES14)
</b><br>
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<br>
<div align="center">In conjunction with the 5th International
Conference on
Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies ANT2014 (Hasselt,
Belgium)
<br>
June 2-5, 2014
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.multiagent.fr/Conferences:AgentCities14">http://www.multiagent.fr/Conferences:AgentCities14</a><br>
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<br>
<b> DESCRIPTION
</b><br>
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
<br>
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
<br>
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
<br>
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.
<br>
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
<br>
models.
<br>
<br>
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).
<br>
<br>
<b>TOPICS
</b><br>
<br>
<ul>
<li>Methods and Models:</li>
<ul>
<li>Agent based Modeling and Simulation</li>
<li>Holonic models</li>
<li>Agent based Simulation of large scale urban systems</li>
<li>Agent oriented analysis and design methods</li>
<li>Ontologies and theories about large urban systems</li>
<li>Smart city models</li>
<li>Formal models of agent-based simulation</li>
<li>Organizational models</li>
</ul>
<li>Applications:</li>
<ul>
<li>Traffic/Transport</li>
<li>Crowds</li>
<li>Smard grids and smart buildings</li>
<li>Land-Use
<br>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<b>WORKSHOP CHAIRS
</b><br>
<br>
<ul>
<li>Stéphane GALLAND - IRTES-SET, Université de Technologie de
Belfort-Montbéliard, France</li>
<li>Sebastian RODRIGUEZ (GITIA, Argentina)</li>
<li>Nicolas GAUD (IRTES-SET, France)
<br>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<b>IMPORTANT DATES
</b><br>
<br>
<ul>
<li>Submission deadline: February 2, 2014</li>
<li>Notification: March 1, 2014</li>
<li>Final date for camera-ready copy: April 4, 2014</li>
<li>Workshop: June 2-5, 2014
<br>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<b>PROGRAM COMMITTEE (CONFIRMED)
</b><br>
<br>
<ul>
<li>OLIVIER BOISSIER (High National School of Mines of
Saint-Etienne, France)</li>
<li>ALEXIS DROGOUL (IRD, Vietnam)</li>
<li>VINCENT HILAIRE (University of Technology of
Belfort-Montbéliard, France)</li>
<li>TOM HOLVOET (University of Leuven, Belgium)</li>
<li>ABDERRAFIAA KOUKAM (University of Technology of
Belfort-Montbéliard, France)</li>
<li>SATHISH KUMAR (Coastal Carolina University, USA)</li>
<li>RENE MANDIAU (University of Valenciennes and
Hainaut-CambrésisLinnaeus, France)</li>
<li>FABIEN MICHEL (University of Montpellier 2, France)</li>
<li>GILDAS MORVAN (University of Artois, France)</li>
<li>MICHAEL SCHUMACHER (HES-SO, Switzerland)</li>
<li>RENE SCHUMANN (HES-SO, Switzerland)</li>
<li>DANY WEYNS (Linnaeus University, Sweden)</li>
<li>ANSAR YASAR (University of Hasselt, Belgium)
<br>
</li>
</ul>
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-- <br>
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<p><strong>Dr. habil. Stéphane GALLAND</strong><br>
Associate Professor (HDR)<br>
Multiagent Simulation Group</p>
<p>IRTES-SET, IRTES, UPR EA 7274.<br>
Institut de Recherche sur les Transports, l’Énergie, et la
Société.<br>
Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard.<br>
Rue Ernest Thierry-Mieg,<br>
90010 Belfort Cedex, FRANCE</p>
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Phone: (+33) [0]384 583 418<br>
Cell: (+33) [0]662 274 442<br>
Fax: (+33) [0]384 583 342<br>
Skype: <a href="skype:sgalland">sgalland</a></p>
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