Agent-Based Coalition Formation in a Co-modal Transport System

Zhanjun Wang (1) , Khaled Mesghouni (2, 1) , Slim Hammadi (3, 1)

1 CRIStAL - Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189
2 LAGIS - Laboratoire d'Automatique, Génie Informatique et Signal
3 LAGIS-OSL

This paper is aimed at presenting a service formation process in a transport information system which is dedicated to the co-modal transportation service. The service formation is achieved via the coalition formation to get a full itinerary with well-assigned route segments. Meanwhile, the coalition formation targets to achieve the optimum combination with respect to the user's preferences. The multi-section characteristics (with transfers) of the journey and numerous simultaneous requests make it necessary to apply a multi-agent approach. With the role-switching of the agents, the agent behaviors and protocol are established to normalize every step of the agent coalition.

Mots clés: co-modal transport; service formation; multi-agent system; coalition protocol

Domaines: Informatique [cs]; Modélisation et simulation

Zhanjun Wang, Khaled Mesghouni, Slim Hammadi. Agent-Based Coalition Formation in a Co-modal Transport System. 2014 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technologies (IAT), Aug 2014, Warsaw, Poland. ⟨10.1109/WI-IAT.2014.182⟩. ⟨hal-01716163⟩