ATT 2010

6th Workshop on AGENTS IN TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORTATION

@ Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), Toronto, Canada

Electronic Abstract Submission: February 7th, 2010
Full Paper Submission: February 10th, 2010
Notifications of acceptance/rejection: March, 5th, 2010
Camera Ready Version: March 14th, 2010
Workshop Date: May, 11th, 2010

Call for Papers

Building effective and user-friendly transportation systems is one of the big challenges for engineers in the 21st century. The rapid change of location, enabled by plane, high-speed rail, sea and road travel, has constantly become easier and more natural. These days we travel without any of the difficulties that accompanied taking a trip less than a century ago. All we have to do is to organize and to pick up the transport mode that comes closest to our objectives. In much the same way, many new opportunities for the delivery of goods are being explored and commercially exploited.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners together in order to set up visions on how agent technology can be and is used for today's isolated IT-tools so as to model, simulate, and manage large-scale complex transportation systems. Therefore, we are interested in research papers, case studies and practitioners' reports on the implementation and use of Autonomous Agents in all areas related to transportation, traffic and logistics. Besides running real-world applications, we are also interested in papers concerning demonstrators or testbed that are still under development. Conceptual papers and those reporting on particular components of transportation systems are also welcome.

This is the sixth edition of a series of workshops: 2000 (with selected papers published by the journal Transportation Research C), 2001, 2004 (with proceedings published in a book by Birkhäuser and selected and extended papers published in a special volume of Transportation Research C), 2006 and 2008 (extended papers published in Transportation Research C). Also for 2010 a publication of selected extended versions of workshop papers in a special issue of an acknowledged traffic related journal is planned.

Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):

· applications of multiagent technology in traffic, transportation, and transport logistics

· coordination in multiagent transportation systems

· agent-based traffic control

· distributed decision making in traffic, transportation and transport logistics

· multi-agent systems for intelligent vehicles

· mobile devices and agents in transportation systems

· intelligent monitoring of transportation systems using agents

· intelligent peer-to-peer transportation systems

· data collection, filtering and distribution of traffic information, resp. transportation data maintained by agents

· autonomous vehicles and collaborative driving

· cognitive approaches to modeling traffic participants

· machine learning approaches to transportation systems

· agent-based approaches to modelling driver behaviour

· agent-based simulation of traffic and transportation systems

· agent-based pedestrian and crowd simulation

· future technologies: opportunities for multiagent systems

Accepted Papers and Proceedings

Out of 20 submissions, 10 have been selected as full papers and 4 as short papers. An acceptance rate of 50% and 70% respectively.

Full papers:

· Reshef Meir and Jeffrey Rosenschein. A Game-theoretic Approach to Leasing Agreements can Reduce Congestion

· Michal Jakob, Ondrej Vanek, Stepan Urban, Petr Benda and Michal Pechoucek. Employing Agents to Improve the Security of International Maritime Transport

· Mahdi Zargayouna, Balbo Flavien and Gérard Scémama. Language for Implementing Multiagent Transportation Applications

· Feirouz Ksontini Briki, René Mandiau, Stéphane Espié and Zahia Guessoum. From activity and context toward reaction time: Application to traffic simulation

· Umar Farooq Minhas, Jie Zhang, Thomas Tran and Robin Cohen. Promoting Effective Exchanges Between Vehicular Agents in Traffic Through Transportation-Oriented Trust Modeling

· Matteo Vasirani and Sascha Ossowski. A market-based approach to accommodate user preferences in reservation-based traffic management

· Hiromitsu Hattori, Yuu Nakajima and Toru Ishida. Modeling Individual Driving Behaviors for Multiagent Traffic Simulation

· Yi Luo and Ladislau Boloni. Towards a more accurate agent-based multi-lane highway simulation

· Luis Macedo. A Surprise-based Selective Attention Agent for Travel Information

· Åse Jevinger, Paul Davidsson and Jan Persson. Agent based intelligent goods

Short papers:

· Michal Jakob, Eduard Semsch, Dusan Pavlicek and Michal Pechoucek. Occlusion-aware Multi-UAV Surveillance of Multiple Urban Areas

· Besma Zeddini, Mahdi Zargayouna and Adnan Yassine. Space and Space-Time Organization Model for the Dynamic VRPTW

· Mario Paolucci and Hiromitsu Hattori. Traffic Simulations with Emotional Effects: A Proposal for Core Affect Contagion

· Jose Vidal and Nathan Huynh. Building Agent-Based Models of Seaport Container Terminals

Proceedings:

The workshop proceedings are available in pdf format here (13MB).

Programme

08:20 - 08:30 Opening and welcome

08:30 - 10:00 Session 1: Simulation

· Hiromitsu Hattori, Yuu Nakajima and Toru Ishida
Modeling Individual Driving Behaviors for Multiagent Traffc Simulation

· Yi Luo and Ladislau Bölöni
Towards a More Accurate Agent-based Multi-Lane Highway Simulation

· Feirouz Ksontini, René Mandiau, Stéphane Espié and Zahia Guessoum
From Activity and Context Toward Reaction Time: Application to Traffic Simulation

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 -12:00 Session 2: Freight Transportation

· Michal Jakob, Ondrej Vanek, Stepan Urban, Petr Benda and Michal Pechoucek
Employing Agents to Improve the Security of International Maritime Transport

· Ase Jevinger, Paul Davidsson and Jan A. Persson
Agent based intelligent goods

· Jose Vidal and Nathan Huynh (short presentation)
Building Agent-Based Models of Seaport Container Terminals

· Michal Jakob, Eduard Semsch, Dusan Pavlicek and Michal Pechoucek (short presentation)
Occlusion-aware Multi-UAV Surveillance of Multiple Urban Areas

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 - 15:00 Session 3: Modeling and Simulation

· Reshef Meir, Jeffery Rosenschein
A Game-theoretic Approach to Leasing Agreements can Reduce Congestion

· Umar Farooq Minhas, Jie Zhang, Thomas Tran and Robin Cohen
Promoting Effective Exchanges Between Vehicular Agents in Traffic Through Transportation-Oriented Trust Modeling

· Besma Zeddini, Mahdi Zargayouna and Adnan Yassine (short presentation)
Space and Space-Time Organization Model for the Dynamic VRPTW

· Mario Paolucci and Hiromitsu Hattori (short presentation)
Traffic Simulations with Emotional Effects: A Proposal for Core Affect Contagion

15:00 -15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 -17:00 Session 4: Traffic and Transportation Management

· Matteo Vasirani and Sascha Ossowski
A market-based approach to accommodate user preferences in reservation-based traffic management

· Luis Macedo
A Surprise-based Selective Attention Agent for Travel Information

· Mahdi Zargayouna, Balbo Flavien and Gérard Scémama
Language for Implementing Multiagent Transportation Applications

17:00 Closing of ATT-2010

Submission details

Contributions should not exceed ten (10) pages in English. For preparation of papers to be submitted please use the ACM template and follow the formatting instructions for authors available at the AAMAS-2010 website. Contributions should carry the title, author(s) name(s), and affiliation including e-mail address, and should include an abstract. Electronic submission via the conference management system is mandatory. Submissions are accepted as documents in PDF or compressed PostScript, only.

Organizing Committee

· Franziska Kluegl, Örebro Universitet, Örebro (Sweden) - franziska.klugl[]oru.se (primary contact)

· Sascha Ossowski, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain) - sascha.ossowski[]urjc.es

· Brahim Chaib-Draa, Université Laval (Canada) - brahim.chaib-draa[]ift.ulaval.ca

· Ana L. C. Bazzan, UFRGS (Brazil) - bazzan[]inf.ufrgs.br

Programme Committee

· Theo Arentze, TU Eindhoven (Netherlands)

· Itzhak Benenson, Tel-Aviv University (Israel)

· Vicente Botti, Technical University of Valencia (Spain)

· Eduardo Camponogara, Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil)

· Paul Davidsson, BTH (Sweden)

· Kurt Dresner, University of Texas at Austin (USA)

· Alberto Fernández Gil, University Rey Juan Carlos (Spain)

· Tom Holvoet, KU Leuven (Belgium)

· Ronald van Katwijk, TU Delft (Netherlands)

· Tamas Mahr, TU Delft (Netherlands)

· René Mandiau, University of Valenciennes (France)

· Kai Nagel, TU Berlin (Germany)

· Eugénio Oliveira, University of Porto (Portugal)

· Rosaldo Rosetti, University of Porto (Portugal)

· Andreas Schadschneider, University of Cologne (Germany)

· Kardi Teknomo, Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines)

· Harry Timmermans, TU Eindhoven (Netherlands)

· Sabine Timpf, University of Augsburg (Germany)

· Kagan Tumer, Oregon State University (USA)

· Matteo Vasirani, University Rey Juan Carlos (Spain)

· Giuseppe Vizzari, University of Milan (Italy)

· Mathijs de Weerdt, TU Delft (Netherlands)

· Li Weigang, University of Brasilia (Brazil)

· Marco A. Wiering, University of Groningen (Netherlands)