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Title:

New Credit Mechanism for Semicooperative Agent-Mediated Joint Activity–Travel Scheduling: Negotiating with Incomplete Information

Accession Number:

01340202

Record Type:

Component

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/9780309167444

Abstract:

Joint activities have been investigated primarily in the context of household-based models of travel demand. The joint decision requires agreement about several issues. Each participant, on the one hand, tries to cooperate with others to reach an agreement on the joint activity and, on the other hand, tries to maximize his or her own benefit. Given such a semicooperative environment, the methods of joint activity scheduling cannot be directly extended. Negotiation is a suitable approach to reach an agreement on multiple issues and decide on a joint activity. This study adopted a multiplayer, multi-issue, multilateral negotiation model by which agents sequentially submitted proposals in consecutive rounds until a deadline. A new credit mechanism for the agents under conditions of incomplete information was proposed. Credit encouraged agents to do favors by compromising in return for agreement on other issues. Some preliminary experimental results show how three agents focusing on four issues related to a joint activity come to an agreement on those issues. The study demonstrates that the number of agreements is improved and that the average number of rounds before an agreement is reached is much smaller than that in a process in which no credit system is used.

Monograph Accession #:

01357339

Report/Paper Numbers:

11-2768

Language:

English

Authors:

Ma, Huiye
Ronald, Nicole
Arentze, Theo A
Timmermans, Harry J P

Pagination:

pp 104-110

Publication Date:

2011

Serial:

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

Issue Number: 2230
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

9780309167444

Media Type:

Print

Features:

Figures (5) ; References (22) ; Tables (1)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 17 2011 6:17PM

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