Rapid urbanization and the propagation of affordable and ubiquitous sensing technologies have been two driving forces that are expected to change the future urban environments dramatically. The enabling technologies have made it now possible to track large crowd movement and changes in urban environment in almost real-time. This has spurred great interests in data management area to take on the challenge of urban computing, which "is a process of acquisition, integration, and analysis of big and heterogeneous data generated by a diversity of sources in urban spaces".
As highly accurate and reliable sensor data and mined insights are now commonly available in many major cities, it creates a fertile ground for agent researchers to invent and apply novel agent-based approaches to address important urban problems. The purpose of this special session is to provide researchers and practitioners a forum to address important urban issues using agent-based approaches.
Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):
The papers submitted to special sessions will be reviewed under the same criteria of regular submissions. Each paper will be allocated a maximum of 8 pages and all papers accepted for special sessions will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press that is indexed by EI.
Submit the paper online via the conference submission system. When creating new submission, select "0.1. Special Session on Agents in Urban Computing and Engineering" under Topics.
Your paper should be formatted following the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.