[agents] [CFP] Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems (AITS at EPIA’2024)

Fri Mar 15 05:52:09 EDT 2024

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Systems (AITS)

https://epia2024.pt/

Thematic Track of the 23rd EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA
2024)

Viana do Castelo, Portugal

September 3-6, 2024

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Submission deadline: April 30, 2024

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The 2024 AITS Thematic Track at EPIA aims to promote a debate on current
developments and advancements in AI techniques from a rather practical
perspective. It will gather both the AI community and transportation
practitioners to discuss how cutting-edge AI technologies can be
effectively applied to improve the performance of transportation systems
and mobility in general on a sustainable basis, according to three
important dimensions, namely economic, environmental, and social. This
forum also aims to generate new ideas towards building innovative
applications of AI technologies into smarter, greener, and safer
transportation systems, stimulating contributions that emphasise how theory
and practice are effectively coupled to solve real-life problems in
contemporary transportation, naturally including all sorts of mobility
systems. Indeed, contemporary transportation is evolving rapidly on a more
intelligent basis, and the concept of Intelligent Transportation Systems
(ITSs) has become already a reality among us, supporting the infrastructure
leading to the emergence of the so-called Smart Mobility, and a whole bunch
of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) solutions as we witness today. Also, when
placed within the framework of Smart Cities, ITS increases in complexity
and brings about new performance measures such as equity and social impact,
privacy and security, ethical and legal compliance, and explainable
decision-support, while environmental sustainability is strongly emphasised.

Therefore, this proposed track is within the application-oriented,
integrative, and multi-disciplinary perspectives of the EPIA Conference
series. It is intended to leverage the cross-fertilisation synergetic
relationship between AI and ITSs. As a matter of fact, as in most fields of
Science, advancements in theory are also inspired by problems identified by
practitioners in their field of expertise. That is also true in AI! As in
many multidisciplinary knowledge areas, many advances in AI are fostered
through challenges found by scientists when applying theory to solve
practical problems. The AITS Track series at EPIA has also served as a
networking platform to discuss current developments and advances in AI, as
well as how such findings might be practically applied to this challenging
and inspiring domain.

This thematic track on AI in Transportation Systems is also organised and
promoted by the technical activity subcommittee on Artificial
Transportation Systems and Simulation (ATSS) of the IEEE ITS Society.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST

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The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Different modes of transport and their interactions (air, road, rail and
water transports)

- Intelligent and real-time traffic management and control

- Design, operation, timetabling, and real-time control of logistics
systems and freight transport

- Transport policy, planning, design and management

- Environmental issues, road pricing, security and safety

- Transport systems operation

- Application and management of new technologies in transport

- Travel demand analysis, prediction, and transport marketing

- Advanced traveller information systems and services

- Ubiquitous transport technologies and ambient intelligence

- Pedestrian and crowd simulation and analysis

- Urban planning toward sustainable mobility

- Service-oriented architectures for vehicle-to-vehicle and
vehicle-to-infrastructure communications

- Assessment and evaluation of intelligent transportation technologies

- Human factors in intelligent vehicles

- Autonomous driving

- Artificial transportation systems and simulation

- Serious games and gamification in transportation

- Behaviour modelling and social simulation of transportation systems

- Electric mobility and its relationship with smart grids and the
electricity market

- Computer vision in autonomous driving

- Surveillance and monitoring systems for transportation and pedestrians

- Data-driven preventive maintenance policies

- Anomalous trajectory mining and fraud detection

- Smart architectures for vehicle-to-vehicle/vehicle-to-infrastructure
communications

- Automatic assessment and/or evaluation of the transport reliability
(planning, control, and other related policies)

- Intelligent transportation infrastructure management and maintenance

- Legal and ethical issues in intelligent transportation systems and smart
mobility

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Submission and Reviewing

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- All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the EPIA 2024
EasyChair submission page https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=epia2024

- Prospective authors should select the thematic track to which their paper
is to be submitted.

The papers should be prepared according to the Springer LNCS format, with a
maximum of 12 pages.

- Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process and
will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the respective track
Program Committee. It is the responsibility of the authors to remove names
and affiliations from the submitted papers and to take reasonable care to
assure anonymity during the review process.

- Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their
proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or Word, to prepare their papers.
Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In
addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all
of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish
form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the
corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to
Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.

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Proceedings and Presentations

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- Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings (as in
previous editions, the publication of a volume of Springer's LNAI-Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence is expected), as long as at least one
author is registered in EPIA 2024 by the deadline advance registration.

- EPIA 2024 proceedings are indexed in Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science,
Scopus, DBLP and Google Scholar.

- Each accepted paper must be presented by one of the authors in a track
session.

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Awards

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The conference will grant the following awards:

* Best Paper Award, for the best research paper presented at the conference

* Best Application Paper, for the best application paper presented at the
conference

* Best Student Paper Award, for the best research paper presented at the
conference where the first author is a student (to confirm)

Important: only papers that have been submitted to a thematic track and
presented at the conference will be eligible for these awards.

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Important Dates

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Paper submission deadline April 30, 2024

Notification of paper acceptance June 15, 2024

Camera-ready papers deadline July 15, 2024

Conference dates September 3-6, 2024

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AITS at EPIA 2023 Organising Committee

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   Alberto Fernandez, CETINIA, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain (
   alberto.fernandez at urjc.es)
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   Tânia Fontes, INESC TEC, Portugal (tania.d.fontes at inesctec.pt)
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   Zafeiris Kokkinogenis, FEUP/LIACC, University of Porto, Portugal (
   zafeiris at fe.up.pt)
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   Rosaldo Rossetti, FEUP/LIACC, University of Porto, Portugal (
   rossetti at fe.up.pt)
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