Transforming the traditional, single-vehicle-based safety and efficiency control, next-generation vehicles are expected to form platoons for optimizing roadway usage and fuel efficiency while ensuring transportation safety. Two basic enablers of vehicle platooning are vehicular wireless networking and platoon control.

The 12th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems Co-located with HPCC 2015 and CSS 2015 *IMPORTANT DATES*

The 18th IEEE International Symposium On Real-Time Computing (ISORC 2015) Scope and Topics of Interest ISORC has become established as the leading event devoted to state-of-the-art research in the field of object/component/service-oriented real-time distributed computing (ORC) technology. We invite original submissions from academia and industry pertaining to all aspects of ORC technology. These include, but are not limited to:

10th IEEE Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems - SIES 2015 University of Siegen Conference web site:    www.sies2015.com Submission system:      https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sies2015

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy (ARPA-E) is seeking researchers interested in partnering on “Traveler Response Architecture using Novel Signaling for Network Efficiency in Transportation” (TRANSNET). The overall objective of the TRANSNET program is to reduce energy use in a multi-modal, urban transportation network through network control mechanisms employing personalized signaling.  More information is located under RFI-0000013 located at https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov/.

UCLA to Host Smart EV Charging and Grid Management Symposium on September 16, 2014 - along with National Drive Electric Week In September, as America and California plan their National Drive Electric Week - https://driveelectricweek.org/event.php?eventid=127 - UCLA's SMERC is planning to host its Smart EV Charging and Grid Management Symposium.

See the Washington Post article featuring Raj Ragunathan's work on Autonomous Transportation Systems.

An autonomous car takes a capital test run.

Driverless cars are coming. And those of us who drive in Washington know that the city offers its own particular version of driver hell. What we don’t know is what will happen when the autocar finds itself in that hell. So we set out on a summer afternoon to see how a driverless car could do on the streets of the nation’s capital.

8th International Workshop on Multi-Paradigm Modeling (MPM'14) Multi-Paradigm Modeling (MPM) is a research field focused on solving the challenge of combining, coupling and integrating rigorous models of some reality, at different levels of abstraction and views, using modeling formalisms and semantic domains, with the goal of simulating or realizing systems that may be physical, software or a combination of both. The key challenges are finding adequate Modeling Abstractions, Multi-formalism Models, Model Transformations and applying MPM techniques and tools to Complex Systems.