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C&CA-2008

2nd International Workshop on CROWDS & CELLULAR AUTOMATA

at 8th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry (ACRI2008)


Yokohama National University, YOKOHAMA, JAPAN.
September 23, 2008.


  Aims of the Workshop:

Cellular Automata (CA) models have been a good source of scientific knowledge to face the study and simulation of crowd dynamics behaviour. It is an intrinsic multidisciplinary research area, and the current literature involving CA and agent-based models is disseminated in a vast range of conferences proceedings, journals and books belonging to different disciplines, from physics to urban planning and psychology. Cellular Automata have found an application in the research in crowd dynamics, pedestrian behaviour, traffic models, urban planning, structural social self-organization, voting, opinion formation, market dynamics, trading, collective beliefs, knowledge diffusion, emotional contagion, etc.
The main goal of this Second International Workshop is to enable a meeting for researchers coming from different disciplines and using Cellular Automata and CA-based computational models for modeling and simulation of the dynamical behaviour of the crowds, pedestrians, societies and worlds.
The workshop is open also to all issues related to the adoption of computer simulation as a tool for crowds' studies, compared to a CA approach. Application demonstrations and domain analyses are welcome. Overviews and states of the arts about social and psychological aspects to be modelled following CA and Agent-based approaches of crowds are also welcome.


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  Topics of the Workshop:

Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

  • crowd dynamics
  • pedestrian behavior
  • urban planning
  • social self-organization
  • voting
  • opinion formation
  • market dynamics
  • trading
  • collective beliefs
  • rumors
  • firm dynamics
  • knowledge diffsion
  • emotional contagion
  • warfare
  • competition
  • religion
  • coalitions
  • social structures
  • politics
  • would-be worlds

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  Important Dates:

Extended abstract submission deadline: March 25, 2008
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2008
Camera ready version: May 1, 2008
Early registration deadline: May 1, 2008
Workshop: September 23, 2008

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  Paper Submission Procedure:

Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts presenting their research. Extended abstracts not exceeding 4 pages, written in English and complying with the LNCS Springer format (http://www.springeronline.com/lncs) should be submitted electronically to:
CCA2008@csai.disco.unimib.it.

Accepted works will be published in the ACRI2008 proceedings published on the Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science. We are considering to select papers to be published in a special issue of an International Journal.


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  Workshop Chairs:

Stefania Bandini
CSAI - Complex Systems & Artificial Intelligence Research Center
University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy)
bandini@csai.disco.unimib.it

Shin Morishita
Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences
Yokohama National University (Japan)
mshin@ynu.ac.jp

Katsuhiro Nishinari
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Faculty of Engineering - University of Tokyo (Japan)
tknishi@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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  Program committee:

Andrew Adamatzky (University of the West of England - Bristol, UK)
Jeffrey Adler (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Troy, NY, USA)
Stefania Bandini (University of Milano-Bicocca - Italy)
Michael Batty (University College London - UK)
Victor Blue (RKA - Poughkeepsie, NY - USA)
Jan Dijkstra (Eindhoven University of Technology - The Netherlands)
Mizar Luca Federici (MVA Consultancy Ltd. - London)
Rainer Hegselmann (University of Bayreuth - Germany)
Andrew Ilachinski (Center for Naval Analyses - Alexandria, VA - USA)
Wander Jager (University of Groningen - The Netherlands)
Nabeel Koshak (Umm Al-Qura University - Saudi Arabia)
Sara Manzoni (University of Milano-Bicocca - Italy)
Shin Morishita (Yokohama National University - Japan)
Katsuhiro Nishinari (University of Tokyo - Japan)
Andreas Schadschneider (Institute of Theoretical Physics - Cologne, Germany)
Michael Schreckenberg (University Duisburg-Essen - Germany)
Harry Timmermans (Technical University Eindhoven - The Netherlands)
Giuseppe Vizzari (University of Milano-Bicocca - Italy)

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ACRI2008 Conference Secretariat
79-7 Tokiwa-dai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, 240-8501 JAPAN
Phone: +81-45-339-4090, Fax: +81-45-339-4092
email: acri2008@ynu.ac.jp