ANT/MSTS (Modelling and Simulation in Transportation track) and ABMTrans workshop 2026

The MSTS Track and ABMTrans Workshop provide 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.

The conference track expects papers reporting research that reached a mature state. The workshop also welcomes papers reporting early results.

This workshop also invites researchers to submit their work focusing on the data mining, management and configuration for agent-based traffic and transportation modeling.

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

• Agent-based modeling and simulation
• Agent-human interactions
• Environment modeling and interaction protocols
• Data mining, learning and adaptation
• AI Tools and Machine Learning in Transportation Research
• Marketing decision support
• Collaboration, cooperation, competition, coalitions in traffic and transportation models
• Agent-based negotiation of QoS and SLAs in traffic and transportation models
• Social and emergent behavior in MAS-T (multi-agent systems applied to traffic and transport)
• Large scale simulation of agent-based microscopic traffic models
• Calibration and validation of agent-based models for traffic and transportation
• Role of multi-agent methodologies for complex systems
• Conceptual modeling of agent-based approach
• Agent-based freight transportation modeling
• Multi-modal routing of agents in a dynamic traffic environment
• Agent-based scheduling to establish synthetic agenda for day-to-day activities

ANT 2026 proceedings

All ANT 2026 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 Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect, and will be freely available worldwide.

All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Engineering Village (Ei) This includes EI Compendex. Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings.

Paper format

The submitted paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of Procedia Computer Science, MS Word Template, Latex, Template Generic, Elsevier.

LaTeX and MS Word templates for ANT and ABMTrans respectively can be found here:

• ABMTrans26_Templates
• ANT26_Templates

Attention: Do not modify the templates supplied by Elsevier in any way (font size, margins, ...). Elsevier will not publish the papers before *all* manuscripts do comply with the original templates. Any deviation from the templates in a manuscript will delay the publication for all papers.

Paper length

Submitted technical papers must be no longer than 8 pages for ANT and no longer than 6 pages for ABMTrans, including all figures, tables and references.

Submission

Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically using the online EasyChair conference management system in PDF format before the deadline (see Important Dates).

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.

• For ANT papers: select the conference 'ANT-2026'.
• For ABMTrans papers: select the conference 'ABMTRANS-2026'. Do not forget to login into https://easychair.org first.

All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be included in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the work.