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<b><br>
FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON AGENT-BASED MODELING AND
SIMULATION </b><br>
<b>OF CITIES (AGENTCITIES14) </b><br>
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<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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<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>
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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>
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<b>TOPICS </b><br>
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<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>
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<li>Applications:</li>
<ul>
<li>Traffic/Transport</li>
<li>Crowds</li>
<li>Smard grids and smart buildings</li>
<li>Land-Use <br>
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</ul>
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<b>WORKSHOP CHAIRS </b><br>
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<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>
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<b>IMPORTANT DATES </b><br>
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<ul>
<li>Submission deadline: February 15, 2014</li>
<li>Notification: March 10, 2014</li>
<li>Final date for camera-ready copy: April 4, 2014</li>
<li>Workshop: June 2-5, 2014 <br>
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<b>PROGRAM COMMITTEE</b><br>
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<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-Cambrésis, 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>
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<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>
<p> <a href="http://www.multiagent.fr/People:Galland_stephane">http://www.multiagent.fr/People:Galland_stephane</a><br>
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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