Reference
R. T. van Katwijk, P. van Koningsbruggen,
B. De Schutter, and J. Hellendoorn, "A test bed for multi-agent control systems
in road traffic management,"
Proceedings of the 84th Annual
Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, 22 pp.,
Jan. 2005. Paper 05-0774.
Abstract
In this paper we present a test bed for multi-agent control systems in road
traffic management. As the complexity of traffic control on a network grows it
becomes more difficult to coordinate the actions of the large number of
heterogeneous traffic management instruments that are available in the network.
One way of handling this complexity is to divide the coordination problem into
smaller coherent subproblems that can be solved with a minimum of interaction.
Multi-agent systems can aid in the distribution of the problem (over the
various agents that comprise the multi-agent system) and facilitate the
coordination of the activities of these agents when required. In the literature
no consensus exists about the best configuration of the traffic managing
multi-agent system and how the activities of the agents that comprise the
multi-agent system should be coordinated. The decomposition of a problem into
various subproblems is an active field of research in the world of distributed
artificial intelligence. This paper starts out with a survey of the approaches
as they are reported in the literature. Subsequently the test bed is introduced
and the modules it is comprised of. Finally an application is presented that
illustrates some of the research the test bed has made possible.
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BibTeX
@inproceedings{vanDeS:04-026,
author = {van Katwijk, Ronald T. and van Koningsbruggen, Paul and De
Schutter, Bart and Hellendoorn, Johannes},
title = {A Test Bed for Multi-Agent Control Systems in Road Traffic
Management},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 84th Annual Meeting of the Transportation
Research Board},
address = {Washington, DC},
month = jan,
year = {2005},
note = {Paper 05-0774}
}