We use agent-based simulation in a coordination game to analyse the possibility of market power abuse in a competitive electricity market. The context of this was a real application to the England and Wales electricity market as part of a Competition Commission Inquiry into whether two particular generators could profitably influence wholesale prices. The research contributions of this paper ar...

Building evacuation analysis has recently received increasing attention, as people are keen to assess the safety of occupants. Reports on past disasters indicate that human behavior characterizes evacuation during emergencies. The understanding and modeling of human behavior enable improved design of evacuation plans to better reflect the needs of occupants — for example, to reduce evacuation t...

As indicated in the literature, agent-based technology should naturally fit the architecture of a travel support system. However, proposals presented thus far have been relatively limited in scope or have not gone beyond early planning stages. The aim of this note is to introduce a comprehensive framework for delivering personalized travel services using an agent infrastructure.

The paper presents a modeling and simulation effort aimed at studying the implications of the presence of groups of pedestrians in different situations (e.g. changing density, configurations of the environment) in experimental and real world scenarios.

The project investigates agent-based techniques for modeling and reasoning about illegitimate maritime activities.

The role of committed minorities in shaping public opinion has been recently addressed with the help of multiagent models. However, previous studies focused on homogeneous populations where zealots stand out only for their stubbornness. Here we consider the more general case in which individuals are characterized by different propensities to communicate. In particular, we correlate commitment w...

We propose a formal framework that supports a model of agent-based Virtual Organisations (VOs) for service grids and provides an associated operational model for the creation of VOs. The framework is intended to be used for describing different service grid applications based on multiple agents and, as a result, it abstracts away from any realisation choices of the service grid application, the...