Consideration on MAS as a Basis for Distributed Modeling of Urban Traffic Simulation

Multi-agent systems models are frequently used in many complex real systems. They allow expressing event-based multi-agent, providing environment, and messaging, execution and sensor services. The development of agent based applications is difficult, suffering from insufficient standards and tools and on the other hand deployment issues are little researched and supported. The cooperation in multi-agent systems is one of the most important features that can be understood in many ways. In the paper is suggested that the designers must make the cooperation possible using appropriate tools. Urban traffic problems are very complex and highly interactive. The multi-agent systems (MAS) approach may however provide a new hopeful direction. Ontology is a mandatory concept in MAS. A simulation system is needed to understand and explore the difficulties in a MAS-based traffic control. In the paper we propose a model of a multi-agent system which is responsible for a map of a network of routes. Key-Words: multi-agent, traffic modeling, ontologies