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First International Workshop on
Multi-level Agent-Based Simulation of Smart Cities
(MASW 2013)
In conjunction with ANT2013
June, 2013, Canada
http://www.multiagent.fr/Conferences:MASW13
The modeling of smart cities 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 immersed in smart cities (individuals or
devices). Two major kinds of simulations may typically be distinguished depending on
whether they seek to achieve: a high-level of realism of behavior (safety simulation, social
sciences, energy...) or high-quality visualization (movie productions, computer games,
virtual reality). Within the first category, simulation results are generally consistent with
observations of real components and individuals and can therefore serve as a basis for
theoretical studies for the evaluation and prediction of the system behavior. In the second
area, behavior models are not the priority and do not match quantitatively the real worlds.
For example, pedestrians are fully animated 3D characters and application users may
have a high degree of interaction with the simulation. Recent research and applications
tend to unify these two areas, especially in the domain of training systems where both
aspects are necessary for an effective training and evaluation.
Many works have been devoted to the study of collective behaviors and their inherent
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 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 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. Multi-level models are an interesting
direction of exploration to obtain accurate and efficient models for the simulation of the
individuals in complex systems such as smart cities.
MASW13 will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (25-28 June 2013) in conjunction
with the 4th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks, and Technologies
(ANT 2013).
TOPICS OF INTERESTS:
• Methods and Models:
• Agent based Multi-level Simulation
• Holonic models
• Agent based Simulation of large scale urban systems
• Agent oriented analysis and design methods
• Ontologies and theories about large urban systems
• Smart city models
• Formal models of agent-based multi-level simulation
• Organizational applications of agent use in multi-level simulation
• Implementation of multi-level systems:
• Agent-oriented architecture for multi-level simulation
• Architectures and platforms for agent-based multi-level simulation
• Architectures and platforms for agent-based traffic simulation
• 3D and virtual reality agents
• Practical application examples
SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS
All workshop accepted papers will be included in the conference proceeding published by Elsevier
Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line.
The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of Procedia Computer Science,
Elsevier
( http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/719435/description#description
), not exceeding 6 pages in length, in two-column format including diagrams and references, and
following the Procedia Computer Science guidelines. Papers that do not follow these guidelines
may be rejected without consideration of their merits.
All papers will be reviewed by at least two Program Committee members on the basis of technical
quality, originality, clarity, and relevance to the track topics listed below. At least one author of each
paper must attend the workshop to present the paper.
IMPORTANT DATES
• Submission deadline: December 8, 2012
• Notification: February 8, 2013
• Final date for camera-ready copy: March 15, 2013
• Workshop: June 25-28, 2013
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
• Frédéric AMBLARD (IRIT, France)
• Fabio CARRERA (WPI, USA)
• Virginia DIGNUM (ICS, The Netherlands)
• Alexis DROGOUL (IRD, Vietnam)
• Giancarlo FORTINO (University of Calabria, Italy)
• Marie-Pierre GLEIZES (IRIT, France)
• Tom HOLVOET (CUL, Belgium)
• Davy JANSSENS (IMOB, Belgium)
• Abderrafiaa KOUKAM (IRTES-SET, France)
• René MANDIAU (LAMIH, France)
• Fabien MICHEL (LIRMM, France)
• Gildas MORVAN (LGI2A, France)
• Kai NAGEL (VSP, Germany)
• Andrea OMICINI (University of Gologna, Italy)
• Juan PAVON (University of Madrid, Spain)
• Michael SCHUMACHER (HEVS, Switzerland)
• Joan SERRAS (CASA, United Kingdom)
• Danny WEYNS (University of Linnaeus, Sweden)
• Ansar YASSAR (IMOB, Belgium)
REGISTRATION
Please visit: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-13/#registration for more information.
VENUE, ACCOMODATION & VISA REQUIREMENTS
Please visit: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-13/#conferenceVenue for more information.
WORKSHOP VICE-CHAIRS
Dr. Stéphane GALLAND IRTES-SET
Laboratoire Systèmes et Transports
Université de Technologie de Belfort-
Montbéliard, France
stephane.galland@utbm.fr
Dr Sebastian RODRIGUEZ CITAT
Centro de Investigación de Tecnologias
Avanzadas de Tucumán
Universidad Technologica National, Facultad
Regional Tucumán, Argentina
sebastian.rodriguez@citat.org.ar
Pr Vincent HILAIRE IRTES-SET
Laboratoire Systèmes et Transports
Université de Technologie de Belfort-
Montbéliard, France
vincent.hilaire@utbm.fr
Dr Nicolas GAUD IRTES-SET
Laboratoire Systèmes et Transports
Université de Technologie de Belfort-
Montbéliard, France
nicolas.gaud@utbm.fr