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====== Workshop C&CA - Fifth International Workshop on Crowds and Cellular Automata ====== ===== Aims and scope ===== Cellular Automata (CA) have been thoroughly applied as an efficient research tool in the scientific area of crowds and pedestrian dynamics. The latter constitutes an intrinsic multidisciplinary research area, thus the current literature involving CA and agent-based models is disseminated in a vast range of conferences proceedings, journals and books; from physics and urban planning, to fire engineering and psychology. Following the principles of its previous editions, the goal of the C&CA 2014 international workshop (the fifth successive within ACRI conferences) is to provide researchers from different disciplines with the opportunity to present their work, introduce their methods and communicate their ideas on CA-originated modeling and simulation of crowds and pedestrians dynamics, within an advanced scientific environment. The workshop further encourages submissions regarding all CA-comparable, computer-simulation-based methods of crowd research. Application demonstrations and domain analyses are welcome, as well as overviews and states-of-the-arts about social and psychological aspects, following CA- and Agent-inspired approaches of crowd dynamics. Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: * crowd dynamics * pedestrian behaviour * spatial competition * urban design and planning * social self-organisation * collective beliefs and behaviour * competition, collaboration * social structures ===== Submissions ===== Authors are invited to submit papers according to two contribution categories -- full and short papers -- meant to provide a differentiation of the papers in terms of their length, depth and/or maturity. Papers must comply with the [[http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-0-0-0|Springer-Verlag format]] and the maximum length of 5 and 10 pages for short and full contributions, respectively. Formatting style files and further guidelines for formatting can be found at [[http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0|Springer]] as well as at [[submission|ACRI 2014 submission page]]. =====Publication ===== Accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in the [[http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-0-0-0|Lecture Notes in Computer Science]] (LNCS) series. A selection of papers that will be presented during the workshop will be published on a special issue of the international [[http://www.oldcitypublishing.com/JCA/JCA.html|Journal of Cellular Automata]]. ===== Important dates ===== * Paper submission: March 19, 2014 * Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: April 15, 2014 * Final version of the paper for the proceedings: May 14, 2014