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Beating Traffic Prediction and Control | |
Beating Traffic
KVAL has an article on Traffic Dodger, which discusses the software. It can plan routes through towns using the vast quantities of data available, avoiding traffic jams and minimising journey time -- Hi-Tech Tool Helps Traffic Snarls. Thsi is a good example of a planning system used in practise. TRN Magazine reports of ongoing research in Portugal about multi-agent systems and learning; |
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Autonomous Learning in MASs
The need for a common language for agent communication is mentioned. Another challenge lies in the question of how to let agents reason about their tasks. It seems that in this specific application the researchers 'hardcoded' the attribute for consideration by implementing a formula, used by an individual agent to evaluate its strategy. An interesting question here would be whether we can let an agent, either individually or in cooperation with others, try to determine what the best/most effective attributes for consideration are without 'hardcoding' this in any way. Maybe by experimenting and comparing the the system's score to a desired utility at certain intervals? Does this sound reasonable or rather like a stupid idea? - Bruno |
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