Title :
Evolutionary method to optimize workplan mobile agent for the transport network application
Author :
Zgaya, Hayfa ; Hammadi, Slim ; Ghedira, Khaled
Author_Institution :
SOIE, Tunis Univ.
Abstract :
This paper explains how to optimize the workplans of mobile agents (MAs) in order to enhance their performance. A MA travels through transport network looking for useful information and services. This information should be available daily to assist travelers to use multimodal transportation system. Our objective is to maximize the number of satisfied transport travelers. In other words, we attempt to increase the satisfaction of transport customers during their travels. So, we intend to optimize task assignment to a set of servers which can offer information with preset cost and processing time. With this intention, we adopted an approach based on evolutionary programs in order to solve our combinatorial problem. Therefore, it is very important to design an efficient representational scheme of a chromosome and develop effective genetic operators. We create a new representation of the chromosome where we integrated the constraints of our problem
Keywords :
automated highways; genetic algorithms; mobile agents; transportation; combinatorial problem; evolutionary method; genetic operators; mobile agent; multimodal transportation system; task assignment optimization; transport network application; Biological cells; Content addressable storage; Cost function; Evolutionary computation; Genetics; Information systems; Intelligent agent; Mobile agents; Optimization methods; Transportation; Evolutionary algorithms; Mobile Agents; Multimodal Information System;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2005 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Waikoloa, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9298-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2005.1571305