>> Workshop on Crowd Simulation <<

Call for participation

June 3rd 2010, Saint-Malo, France

Collocated with CASA 2010, the 23rd International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents

workshop on crowd simulation

>> Organizers

>> Overview

Crowd simulation has significantly grown in strength these past ten years. This exciting field is important in a range of areas spanning from the entertainment industry (video-games, movies) to security and design (evacuation of facilities, architecture, virtual-reality training, etc.). Producing quality crowd simulation applications raises many algorithmic and technical challenges. Several research communities are involved in this wide topic: Computer Graphics, Physics, Transportation Science, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Urbanism Science, etc. The main objective of this workshop is make these communities meet, present on-going work, share experience, identify next challenges and discuss various perspectives. Example topics of this workshop are:

>> Call for Participation

We would very much like your input! We invite 20min presentations (+10 min questions/discussions). Presentations will be selected from abstracts submission, 350 words maximum. Upon acceptance, we will ask for a 2-4 pages extended abstract that will be published in the CASA 2010 electronic proceedings. The selection of presentations will be made by organizers; the guiding principle is to maximize the number of represented research domains, as well as the number of represented labs.

>> How to submit?

All you have to do for proposing a presentation to the workshop is to:

  1. Prepare a 350 words max. abstract of your presentation
  2. Add your name and affiliation
  3. Send the description directly by e-mail to casa2010ws-crowd@listes.irisa.fr before march 30, 2010.
  4. Decision will be notified to you by mail before april the 10th.
  5. Upon acceptance, you will be asked to send an extended abstract of the presentation (2 to 4 pages)
  6. Extended abstracts will be made available with the electronic proceedings of CASA 2010.

>> Important dates

350 words abstract submission: March 30, 2010
Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2010
2-4 pages extended abstract description: April 30, 2010
Workshop: June 3, 2010

>> Contact

casa2010ws-crowd@listes.irisa.fr