Title
Measuring the Complexity of Self-organizing Traffic Lights.
Abstract
We apply measures of complexity, emergence, and self-organization to an urban traffic model for comparing a traditional traffic-light coordination method with a self-organizing method in two scenarios: cyclic boundaries and non-orientable boundaries. We show that the measures are useful to identify and characterize different dynamical phases. It becomes clear that different operation regimes are required for different traffic demands. Thus, not only is traffic a non-stationary problem, requiring controllers to adapt constantly; controllers must also change drastically the complexity of their behavior depending on the demand. Based on our measures and extending Ashby's law of requisite variety, we can say that the self-organizing method achieves an adaptability level comparable to that of a living system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.3390/e16052384
ENTROPY
Keywords
DocType
Volume
self-organization,complexity,emergence,information,traffic,cellular automata,adaptation,autopoiesis
Journal
16
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
Entropy, 16(5):2384-2407. 2014
14
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.88
18
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dario Zubillaga1140.88
Geovany Cruz2140.88
Luis Daniel Aguilar3140.88
Jorge Zapotecatl4171.70
Nelson Fernandez5140.88
Jose Aguilar610532.57
David A. Rosenblueth712221.97
Carlos Gershenson839242.34