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MADARP: A Distributed Agent-Based System for On-Line DARP

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Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA 2007)

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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.

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  1. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Escuela de Ingeniería Informática, Av. Brasil 2241, Valparaíso, Chile

    Claudio Cubillos, Broderick Crawford & Nibaldo Rodríguez

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Ivan Stojmenovic Ruppa K. Thulasiram Laurence T. Yang Weijia Jia Minyi Guo Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello

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Cubillos, C., Crawford, B., Rodríguez, N. (2007). MADARP: A Distributed Agent-Based System for On-Line DARP. In: Stojmenovic, I., Thulasiram, R.K., Yang, L.T., Jia, W., Guo, M., de Mello, R.F. (eds) Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications. ISPA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4742. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74742-0_17

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