Engineering self-organizing urban superorganisms

Self-organizing urban transportation systems

Urban transportation is a complex phenomenon. Since many agents are constantly interacting in parallel, it is difficult to predict the future state of a transportation system. Because of this, optimization techniques tend to give obsolete solutions, as the problem changes before it can be optimized. An alternative lies in seeking adaptive solutions. This adaptation can be achieved with self-org...

Self Organizing Maps for Urban Modelling

Tools for Self-Organizing Applications Engineering

Nowadays, the applications to be realized are more often distributed, complex and open, e.g., applications on the Internet: information search, brokerage, e-commerce, e-business... Therefore, designers cannot implement a global control and list all situations such systems have to be faced with. ADELFE methodology was proposed to develop this kind of software. It is based on the AMAS theory (Ada...

Software engineering for self-organizing systems

Self-organizing software systems are an increasingly attractive approach to highly distributed, decentralized, dynamic applications. In some domains (such as the Internet), the interaction of originally independent systems yields a self-organizing system de facto, and engineers must take these characteristics into account to manage them. This review surveys current work in this field and outlin...

An Agent-Based Self-Organizing Traffic Environment for Urban Evacuations

Traffic congestion has many negative effects on our daily lives, the economy and the environment. These effects get worse in critical situations (e.g., emergency urban evacuations) when human lives are at risk. As smart cities are becoming a reality, technologies known as Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have been considered as viable solutions for the many negative effects of congestio...