The ANT conference covers Transportation Research by
- the MSTS (Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Science) track
- the ABMTrans workshop.

The 16th International Workshop on Agent-based Mobility, Traffic and Transportation Models (ABMTRANS-2027)

https://www.uhasselt.be/en/instituten-en/transportation-research-institute-imob/portfolio/abmtrans-workshop-2027
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-27/#workshop_approved
https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=abmtrans2027

in conjunction with

The 18th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2027)
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-27/
https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=ant27

2027 April 13-15 Delft, The Netherlands

CALL FOR PAPERS : ANT-2027(MSTS) and ABMTRANS-2027

The ANT-2027 conference dedicates the MSTS track to "Modeling and Simulation in Transportation Sciences" while the ABMTRANS-2027 workshop focuses on the agent-based approach in that domain.
Both provide an international forum on the latest technologies and research in the field of traffic and transportation modeling. Both are organized by the Transportation Research Institute (IMOB), Hasselt University, Belgium.
- The ANT/MSTS track expects papers reporting on mature research.
- The ABMTrans workshop also welcomes papers presenting early results in recently started research.

SCOPE

The aim of the ANT-2027 MSTS track is to bring together communities interested in the computation, knowledge discovery and technology policy aspects of transportation systems. The organizers of ANT-2027 (MSTS track) welcome information technology application papers from researchers in the domains of transportation sciences and engineering, computer science, machine learning, data science, urban and regional planning, civil engineering, geography, geo-informatics and related disciplines to submit papers for consideration for presentation and for publication in the conference proceedings.

The ABMTRANS workshop provides a multidisciplinary collaborative forum for researchers and practitioners to submit papers presenting new research results and novel ideas related to the theory or the practice of agent-based traffic and transportation modeling. This workshop also invites researchers to submit their work focusing on the data mining, (activity-based) demand prediction, management and configuration for agent-based traffic and transportation modeling.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Agent-based and activity-based scheduling to establish synthetic daily travel and activity plans
Agent-based negotiation of QoS and SLAs in traffic and transportation models
Agent-based transportation modeling and simulation
Calibration and validation of (agent-based) models for traffic and transportation
Collaboration, cooperation, competition, coalitions in traffic and transportation models, including collaborative multi-modal transport
Conceptual modeling of agent-based approach
Data mining and statistical learning for travel information
Environment modeling and interaction protocols
Human-computer interfaces in intelligent transportation applications
Human factors including adaptive driving, travel behavior, pervasive technology
Large scale simulation of agent-based microscopic traffic models
Logistics and transportation management
MaaS (Mobility as a Service)
Machine learning and Artifical intelligence in transportation research
Marketing decision support
Mathematical optimization in traffic engineering and smart city topics
Modeling the contribution of transportation to climate change
Multi-modal routing of agents in a dynamic traffic environment
Neural networks in transporation research
Renewable energy sources in transportation
Role of multi-agent methodologies for complex systems
Simulation of traffic, passenger flows, assisted driving or collaborative transport
Social and emergent behavior in MAS-T (multi-agent systems applied to traffic and transport)
Traffic flow and transportation modeling
Travel information, including recommender systems and user feedback systems
Uncertain information in collaborative transport and assisted traveling

SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS

All papers submitted to ANT-2027 and ABMTRANS-2027 will be peer reviewed. Accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on the Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers.

The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org. If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date.

The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in ANT-2027 website ( http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-27/ ).
LaTeX and MS Word Templates for ABMTrans and ANT are available via https://www.uhasselt.be/en/instituten-en/transportation-research-institute-imob/portfolio/abmtrans-workshop-2027

For ANT-2027, submitted technical papers must be no longer than 8 pages for full papers and 5 pages for short papers including all figures, tables and references. Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically using the online conference management system ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ant27 ) in PDF format before the deadline (see Important Dates).

For ABMTRANS-2027 workshop papers, the number of pages is limited to 6 pages. Authors are requested to submit their contributions electronically in PDF format at: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=abmtrans2027 .

IMPORTANT DATES for ANT-2027 and ABMTRANS-2027 are the same.

Paper submission: 2026-Nov-02
Acceptance notification: 2027-Jan-07
Final manuscript due: 2027-Feb-01

Please refer to http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-27/#importantDates for possible deadline extensions.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Abolfazl Kouros | Mohammadian | University of Illinois Chicago | US
Azise Oumar | Diallo | IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) | France
Daniel | Krajzewicz | Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt | Germany
Dominik | Ziemke | Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt | Germany
Fariya | Sharmeen | KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm | Sweden
Giulio | Giorgione | Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) | Luxembourg
Gunnar | Flotterod | VTI Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute | Sweden
Jingjun | Li | Heriot Watt University | UK
Johan | Holmgren | Malmo University | Sweden
Johan | Joubert | KULeuven | Belgium
Josep Maria | Salanova | CERTH (Centre for Research & Technology, Hellas) | Greece
Kay W. | Axhausen | ETH Zuerich | Switzerland
Luk | Knapen | Hasselt University | Belgium
Michael | Zilske | TUBerlin | Germany
Michela | Le Pira | University of Catania | Italy
Milos | Balac | ETH Zuerich | Switzerland
Muhammad | Adnan | Hasselt University | Belgium
Nicolai | Mallig | Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften | Switzerland
Panagiotis | Tzouras | National Technical University of Athens | Greece
Peter | Vortisch | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Germany
Rita | Cyganski | Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt | Germany
Rob | van der Mei | VU, CWI Amsterdam | The Netherlands
Sebastian | Hoerl | Institut de Recherche Technologique (IRT) SystemX, Paris | France
Stephane | Galland | Université de Technologie Belfort-Montbéliard | France
Tom | Bellemans | Hasselt University | Belgium
Wim | Ectors | Hasselt University | Belgium
Zineb | Besri | University of Abdelmalek ESSAADI, Tétouan | Morroco

REGISTRATION

Please visit: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-27/#registration for more information.

VENUE, ACCOMMODATION & VISA REQUIREMENTS

Please visit: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-27/#conferenceVenue for more information.

Organizers: {Dr. ir. Luk Knapen, Prof Dr. ir. Tom Bellemans, Prof Dr. Muhammad Adnan} (Hasselt University, Belgium) - Dr. Jingjun Li (Heriot-Watt University, UK)

ANT-2027 MSTS TRACK CHAIR

Dr. ir. Luk Knapen
Transportation Research Institute (IMOB)
Hasselt University, Belgium
luk.knapen at uhasselt.be

ABMTRANS-2027 WORKSHOP ORGANIZER

Dr. ir. Luk Knapen
Transportation Research Institute (IMOB)
Hasselt University, Belgium
luk.knapen at uhasselt.be