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• Title:Advanced mobility and transport engineering / edited by Slim Hammadi, Mekki Ksouri.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Hammadi, Slim.
  Ksouri, Mekki.
  
• Published/Created:London : ISTE ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2012.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: TA1145 .A37 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Transportation engineering.
  
• Description:xiv, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781848213777
  1848213778
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Agent-oriented Road Traffic Simulation / Stephane Espie
  1.1. Introduction
  1.2. principle of multi-agent systems
  1.2.1. Motivations
  1.2.2. Agents versus multi-agent systems
  1.3. General remarks on traffic simulation devices
  1.3.1. Granularity level
  1.3.2. centralized approach for traffic simulation
  1.3.3. Behavioral approaches
  1.4. ArchiSim simulator
  1.4.1. distributed architecture
  1.4.2. behavioral model of agents
  1.5. issue of traffic simulation in intersections
  1.5.1. Behavioral model of agents
  1.5.2. Illustrative example of the proposed model
  1.6. Assessment of different scenarios
  1.6.1. Assessing the execution time of agents
  1.6.2. Reducing the number of deadlock situations
  1.6.3. Real situations
  1.7. Conclusion
  1.8. Bibliography
  ch. 2 Agent-based Information System for Searching and Creating Mobility-aiding Services / Hayfa Zgaya
  2.1. Introduction
  2.2. Formulating the problem
  2.3. global architecture of the system
  2.3.1. Modeling based on communicating agents
  2.3.2. Local databases within the ISAM
  2.3.3. Dynamic data archiving model
  2.4. Proposal of a resolution system with several interactive entities: a dynamic multi-agent system
  2.5. behavior of a scheduling agent
  2.5.1. First level of optimization: building initial route plans for mobile agents
  2.5.2. Second level of optimization: creating services using an evolutionary framework
  2.6. Managing system robustness when dealing with disruptions: advancing a negotiation process between stationary and mobile entities
  2.6.1. Initiators and participants
  2.6.2. proposed protocol
  2.7. usefulness of a dedicated dynamic ontology
  2.7.1. Terms
  2.7.2. Predicates
  2.8. Simulations and results
  2.8.1. Intra-system communication
  2.8.2. validity and assessment of the mobile agent paradigm
  2.8.3. Example of a mobility-aiding services demand scenario
  2.8.4. Case study of an itinerary service
  2.9. Conclusion and perspectives
  2.10. List of abbreviations
  2.11. Bibliography
  ch. 3 Inter-vehicle Services and Communication / Mikael Desertot
  3.1. Introduction
  3.2. specificity of inter-vehicle communication
  3.2.1. What is an inter-vehicle service?
  3.2.2. Inter-vehicle services versus ambient computing
  3.2.3. What type of stakeholders are involved?
  3.3. Inter-vehicle communication
  3.3.1. What constraints?
  3.3.2. Can we do without communication architecture?
  3.3.3. Data exchange or service invocation?
  3.4. Deployment and maintenance
  3.4.1. What are the deployment needs?
  3.4.2. Available deployment mechanisms
  3.4.3. Application of the VESPA example
  3.5. What kind of future can we envisage for inter-vehicle services and communication technologies?
  3.6. Bibliography
  ch. 4 Modeling and Control of Traffic Flow / Amar Benasser
  4.1. General introduction
  4.1.1. Different models of road traffic flow
  4.1.2. Classification criteria for road traffic flow system models
  4.2. Microscopic models
  4.2.1. Car-following models
  4.2.2. cellular automata model
  4.3. Macroscopic models
  4.3.1. LWR-type first-order models
  4.3.2. Superior-order or second-order models
  4.4. General remarks concerning macroscopic and microscopic models
  4.4.1. Links between models
  4.4.2. Domains of application of macroscopic and microscopic models
  4.4.3. Movement toward hybrid models
  4.5. Hybrid models
  4.5.1. Magne model (MicMac)
  4.5.2. Poschinger model
  4.5.3. Bourrel model (HYSTRA)
  4.5.4. Mammar model
  4.5.5. Espie model
  4.5.6. El Hmam hybrid model
  4.5.7. Comparison of the hybrid models presented and general remarks
  4.6. Different strategies for controlling road traffic flow systems
  4.6.1. Regulation of access: definition and history
  4.6.2. Access regulation methods (metering systems)
  4.6.3. Adaptive local access regulation strategies (responsive ramp metering control strategy)
  4.6.4. Adaptive strategies for coordinated access regulation (multivariable regulator strategies)
  4.6.5. Implementation of regulation via traffic lights
  4.6.6. Evaluation of access control (effects of access regulation)
  4.7. Conclusion
  4.8. Bibliography
  ch. 5 Criteria and Methods for Interactive System Evaluation: Application to a Regulation Post in the Transport Domain / Christophe Kolski
  5.1. Introduction
  5.2. Principles and criteria of evaluation
  5.2.1. Principle of evaluation
  5.2.2. Classifications of evaluation methods
  5.3. Methods, techniques and tools for the evaluation of interactive systems
  5.3.1. User-centered approaches
  5.3.2. Expert-based approaches
  5.3.3. Analytical approaches
  5.3.4. Synthesis of evaluation methods, techniques and tools
  5.4. Toward automated or semi-automated evaluation assistance tools
  5.4.1. Tools utilizing ergonomic guidelines
  5.4.2. Tools for the collection of interaction data to support the evaluation
  5.5. Proposal of a generic and configurable environment to aid in the evaluation of agent-based interactive systems: EISEval
  5.5.1. Motivation
  5.5.2. Principles of the proposed EISEval evaluation environment
  5.5.3. Structure of the environment proposed
  5.6. Context of operation of the proposed evaluation environment
  5.6.1. SART project
  5.6.2. IAS agent-based interactive system
  5.6.3. Application of the proposed EISEval environment to evaluate IAS
  5.7. Conclusion
  5.8. Bibliography.