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Organizational and Agent-based Automated Negotiation Model for Carpooling
- Source :
- EUSPN/ICTH
- Publisher :
- The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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Abstract
- In the carpooling, individuals need to communicate, negotiate and in most cases adapt their daily schedule to enable cooperation. Through negotiation, agents (individuals) can reach complex agreements in an iterative way which meet the criteria for successful negotiation. The result of the negotiation depends on “negotiation mechanism” used to match and on the behavior of the agents involved in the negotiation process. This paper presents an organizational and agent-based model for commuting by candidate carpoolers using a simple negotiation mechanism aimed at finding an acceptable agreement between agents to carpool. Initially, the agents involved in exploration process, search for their partners via some kind of Agent Communication Language (ACL); after finding potential partners, they start a negotiation to find matched partner to carpool. After having found a good match, the agents can carpool for a specified time period. The agents join the carpool group when the negotiation is successful and leave the carpool group when the agreed time period is expired. Agents can be part of several carpool groups sequentially. The first implementation used home and work locations as well as preferred trip start times and carpool periods determined by uniformly sampling given sets. Furthermore a simplistic negotiation mechanism used roughly to produce possible results for the synthetic data. An automated negotiation model is implemented and validated through simulation. The Janus multi-agent platform is used. Future research will mainly focus on the development of behaviorally sound negotiation mechanism. Hussain, I (reprint author), Hasselt Univ, Transportat Res Inst IMOB, Wetenschapspk 5 Bus 6, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium. iftikhar.hussain@uhasselt.be
- Subjects :
- Schedule
Agent technology
Knowledge management
Operations research
Computer science
Process (engineering)
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negotiation model
Janus platform
02 engineering and technology
Agent-based social simulation
Negotiation
Carpool
0502 economics and business
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Organizational model
General Environmental Science
media_common
050210 logistics & transportation
negotiation
carpooling
agent-based social simulation
organizational model
agent technology
business.industry
Multi-agent system
05 social sciences
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
business
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 18770509
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Procedia Computer Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....565e2bdad9c3314c006767a207176d96
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2014.08.059