Negotiation in Ride-hailing between Cooperating BDI Agents

Ömer Erduran, Marcel Mauri, Mirjam Minor

2022

Abstract

These days, ride-hailing is an emerging trend in Mobility as a service (MaaS). First services involving human taxi drivers such as Uber, Lyft and DiDi are commercially successful. With the rise of autonomous vehicles, self-organized fleets for ride-hailing systems come into the focus of research. Multi-agent systems (MAS) provide solutions for many challenges of this application scenario. Especially, the communication of cooperating agents is beneficial for a structured and well planned task distribution. In this paper, we investigate a MAS for autonomous vehicles in MaaS and put the focus on a negotiation based assignment of customer trips. An agent model concept is introduced where the main type, the vehicle agent is designed following a BDI architecture. The communication system for the MAS is implemented by using the contract net protocol. We develop the negotiation process and furthermore evaluate the agent communication with respect to its impact on pickup time satisfaction and environmental sustainability using two quality measures, which calculate the average travel distance and the order dropout rate. An experimental setup including historical trip data in a simulation demonstrates the feasibility of our approach.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Erduran Ö., Mauri M. and Minor M. (2022). Negotiation in Ride-hailing between Cooperating BDI Agents. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-547-0, pages 425-432. DOI: 10.5220/0010973700003116

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart22,
author={Ömer Erduran and Marcel Mauri and Mirjam Minor},
title={Negotiation in Ride-hailing between Cooperating BDI Agents},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2022},
pages={425-432},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010973700003116},
isbn={978-989-758-547-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - Negotiation in Ride-hailing between Cooperating BDI Agents
SN - 978-989-758-547-0
AU - Erduran Ö.
AU - Mauri M.
AU - Minor M.
PY - 2022
SP - 425
EP - 432
DO - 10.5220/0010973700003116