Authors:
Shouhei Taga
1
;
Tomofumi Matsuzawa
2
;
Munehiro Takimoto
2
and
Yasushi Kambayashi
1
Affiliations:
1
Nippon Institute of Technology, Japan
;
2
Tokyo University of Science, Japan
Keyword(s):
Multi Agent, Mobile Agent, Ant Colony Optimization, Mobile Ad Hoc Network, Contingency Plan, Risk Management.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
Bioinformatics
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Collective Intelligence
;
Cooperation and Coordination
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Methodologies and Technologies
;
Mobile Agents
;
Multi-Agent Systems
;
Operational Research
;
Simulation
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
We propose a system that supports stranded commuters caused by a large-scale disaster. When a large-scale
disaster breaks out, buildings may collapse and roads may be damaged and the public transportation systems
would be paralyzed. Thus, people working in the city center have to walk back home on foot. The problem is
that when those people start walking, the situation along the routes for returning home may be different from
that of the pre-disaster. Not only may it be the first time for most of them to walk home, but also the return
route may be extremely complex due to many detours. They have to look for alternative routes whenever
bridges collapse and fires break out. Making situation become worse, modern people intensively use
navigation systems, those systems may be unavailable due to the paralyzed Internet. A large scale disaster
may destroy base stations of wireless phones, and even if it does not completely destroy them, extreme
congestion may paralyze the communica
tion infrastructure so that not only net-surfing using smartphone, but
also collecting information by e-mail may become impossible. To deal with such situations, we are designing
a system that provides those unfortunate pedestrians appropriate return routes to their homes without
depending on the communication infrastructures. Instead, our proposed system only depends on smartphones
of those pedestrians and constructs mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) to collect and disperse useful
information. We employ multiple mobile agents extensively for information collection and dispersion. In
order to demonstrate the feasibility of our system, we have constructed a preliminary prototype of the
simulation system and have conducted numerical experiments.
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