MADARP: a distributed agent-based system for on-line DARP

  • Authors:
  • Claudio Cubillos;Broderick Crawford;Nibaldo Rodríguez

  • Affiliations:
  • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Escuela de Ingeniería Informática, Valparaíso, Chile;Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Escuela de Ingeniería Informática, Valparaíso, Chile;Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Escuela de Ingeniería Informática, Valparaíso, Chile

  • Venue:
  • ISPA'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The present work describes the design of a distributed agent system devoted to the Dial-a-Ride Problem. This routing and scheduling problem consists in finding a set of routes and schedules for each vehicle that satisfies a set of trip requests comming from users. The agent system distributes an improved insertion heuristic for the scheduling of passengers' trip requests over a fleet of vehicles. Agents make use of the contract-net protocol as base coordination mechanism for the planning and scheduling of passenger trips.