creators_name: Chen, Yee Ming 
creators_name: Wang, Bo-Yuan 
type: journalp
datestamp: 2009-11-14 11:32:11
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:32
metadata_visibility: show
title: Towards Participatory Design of Multi-agent Approach to Transport Demands
ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
full_text_status: public
keywords: Multi-agent, Pickup and Delivery Problemt, Simulation
abstract: The design of multi-agent based simulations (MABS) is up to now mainly done in laboratories and based on designers understanding of the activities to be simulated. Domain experts have little chance to directly validate agent behaviors. To fill this gap, we are investigating participatory methods of design, which allow users to participate in the design the pickup and delivery problem (PDP) in the taxi planning problem. In this paper, we present a participatory process for designing new socio-technical architectures to afford the taxi dispatch for this transportation system. The proposed dispatch architecture attempts to increase passenger satisfaction more globally, by concurrently dispatching multiple taxis to the same number of passengers in the same geographical region, and vis-a-vis human driver and dispatcher satisfaction.
date: 2009-09
date_type: published
publication: Y. M. Chen and B. Y. Wang, "Towards Participatory Design of Multi-agent Approach to Transport Demands", International Journal of Computer Science Issues, IJCSI, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp10-15, September 2009
volume: 4
number: 1
publisher: International Journal of Computer Science Issues, IJCSI
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Chen, Yee Ming  and Wang, Bo-Yuan   (2009) Towards Participatory Design of Multi-agent Approach to Transport Demands.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/6707/1/4-1-10-15.pdf