Design of a return route support system using multiple mobile agents

Author

Yatsuyanagi, Naoki ; Takimoto, Munehiro ; Kambayashi, Yasushi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Eng., Nippon Inst. of Technol., Saitama, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

9-12 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

1571

Lastpage

1576

Abstract

This paper presents a multi-agent system that is constructed to assist commuters walking home following a disaster. This system employs multiple mobile software agents on mobile ad hoc network (MANET) that is temporarily constructed with participants´ smartphones. The mobile agents disseminate positive and negative information in the MANET as well as collect information. Upon retrieving the information, the system proposes the return route and presents it on the smartphone. As a result of experiments on a simulator, we have observed that the system can provide complete return routes when there are enough participants.

Keywords

information dissemination; mobile ad hoc networks; mobile agents; multi-agent systems; smart phones; MANET; information retriaval; mobile ad hoc network; multiagent system; multiple mobile agents; multiple mobile software agents; negative information dissemination; positive information dissemination; return route support system; smartphone; Global Positioning System; Legged locomotion; Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile agents; Multi-agent systems; Smart phones; ACO; MANET; Mobile Agent; Multi agent;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SICE Annual Conference (SICE), 2014 Proceedings of the

Conference_Location

Sapporo

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SICE.2014.6935287

Filename

6935287