Reference
R. T. van Katwijk, P. van Koningsbruggen,
B. De Schutter, and J. Hellendoorn, "Test bed for multiagent control systems in
road traffic management,"
Transportation Research
Record, no. 1910, pp. 108-115, 2005.
Abstract
In this paper we present a test bed for multiagent 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.
Multiagent systems can aid in the distribution of the problem (over the various
agents that comprise the multiagent 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 multiagent system
and how the activities of the agents that comprise the multiagent 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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@article{vanDeS:05-007,
author = {van Katwijk, Ronald T. and van Koningsbruggen, Paul and De
Schutter, Bart and Hellendoorn, Johannes},
title = {Test Bed for Multiagent Control Systems in Road Traffic
Management},
journal = {Transportation Research Record},
number = {1910},
pages = {108--115},
year = {2005}
}