Title
An artificial market for efficient allocation of road transport networks
Abstract
The efficient utilisation of large and distributed sociotechnical systems is a difficult problem. Centralised approaches can be computationally intractable, unresponsive to change and require extensive knowledge of the underlying system. In the last decade, distributed approaches based on artificial markets have been proposed as a paradigm for the design and the control of complex systems, such as group of robots or distributed computation environments. In this work we model an artificial market as a framework for the efficient allocation of a road transport network, where each network portion is controlled by a market agent that "produces mobility" on its links. We demonstrate that the collective behaviour of the market agents, if properly designed, lead to an optimised use of the road network.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-24603-6_20
MATES
Keywords
Field
DocType
road transport network,road network,market agent,complex system,efficient utilisation,collective behaviour,network portion,centralised approach,efficient allocation,artificial market
Complex system,Computer science,Sociotechnical system,Robot,Transport network,Artificial market,Computation,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6973
0302-9743
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matteo Vasirani129328.75
Sascha Ossowski21646158.02