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A Distributed Optimized Approach based on the Multi Agent Concept for the Implementation of a Real Time Carpooling Service with an Optimization Aspect on Siblings
Manel Sghaier, Hayfa Zgaya, Slim Hammadi, Christian Tahon
Pages - 217 - 241     |    Revised - 01-05-2011     |    Published - 31-05-2011
Volume - 5   Issue - 2    |    Publication Date - May / June 2011  Table of Contents
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KEYWORDS
Real Time Carpooling, Optimization, Multi-Agent System, Network’s Decomposition, Distributed Dynamic Graph Modeling, Distributed Algorithm
ABSTRACT
Thanks to the important and increasing growth of the carpooling phenomenon throughout the world, many researchers have particularly focused their efforts on this concept. Most of the existent systems present multiple drawbacks regarding automation, functionalities, accessibility, etc. Besides, only few researchers focused on real time carpooling concept without producing promising results. To address these gaps, we introduce a novel approach called DOMARTiC: a Distributed Optimized approach based on the Multi-Agent concept for the implementation of a Real Time Carpooling service. We particularly focus on the distributed and dynamic aspect not only within the geographical network’s representation but also regarding the used automatic tools and the implementing algorithms. Adequate modeling on the base of which a distributed architecture is set up has been adopted helping to perform decentralized parallel process. This helped to take into consideration different aspects we should be involved in, especially the optimization issue as users\' requests must be performed in a reasonable runtime. Responses provided to users should also be efficient with regards to the fixed optimization criteria.
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Miss Manel Sghaier
Ecole Centrale de Lille - France
sghaiermanel@gmail.com
Dr. Hayfa Zgaya
- France
Professor Slim Hammadi
- France
Professor Christian Tahon
- France


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