Paper Info
Title
Simulation Model Of Carpooling With The Janus Multiagent Platform
Abstract
Carpooling is an emerging alternative transportation mode that is eco-friendly and sustainable as it enables commuters to save time, travel resource, reduce emission and traffic congestion. The procedure of carpooling consists of a number of steps namely; (i) create a motive to carpool, (ii) communicate this motive with other agents, (iii) negotiate a plan with the interested agents, (iv) execute the agreed plans, and (v) provide a feedback to all concerned agents. The state-of-the-art research work on agent-based modeling is limited to a number of technical and empirical studies that are unable to handle the complex agent behavior in terms of coordination, communication and negotiations. In this paper, we present a conceptual design of an agent-based model (ABM) for the carpooling a that serves as a proof of concept. Our model for the carpooling application is a computational model that is used for simulating the interactions of autonomous agents and to analyze the effects of change in factors related to the infrastructure, behavior and cost. In our carpooling application, we use agent profiles and social networks to initiate our agent communication model and then employ a route matching algorithm, and a utility function to trigger the negotiation process between agents. We plan to, as a part of the future work, develop a prototype of our agent-based carpooling application based on the work presented in this paper. Furthermore, we also intend to carry out a validation study of our results with real data. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.procs.2013.06.115
4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AMBIENT SYSTEMS, NETWORKS AND TECHNOLOGIES (ANT 2013), THE 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SEIT-2013)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Carpooling Problem, Multi-agent simulation, Organizational Model, Janus Platform
Autonomous agent,Computer security,Computer science,Models of communication,Proof of concept,Artificial intelligence,Empirical research,Traffic congestion,Distributed computing,Conceptual design,Carpool,Machine learning,Blossom algorithm
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
19
1877-0509
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.54
8
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stéphane Galland119223.57
Nicolas Gaud225724.30
Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar311842.31
Luk Knapen48622.42
Davy Janssens523838.08
Olivier Lamotte6161.93