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Abstract(s)
Smart City uses emerging technologies to improve citizens’ quality of life. A branch of this
topic is the Smart Parking, where the parking system implements intelligent mechanisms
to simplify to the searching of parking spots and consequently decrease the traffic of
cars. This work proposes an architecture using Multi-Agent System (MAS), enhanced
with some holonic systems principles, that is capable to be applied to different range of
parking systems, e.g., considering trucks, cars, or bicycles.
Being a distributed architecture, a special attention is devoted to study the negotiation
protocols that will regulate the behavior of autonomous and cooperative actors in the
system, namely drivers and parking spots, during allocation process of parking spots to
drivers. For this purpose, the Contract Net Protocol (CNP), English Auction, Dutch
Auction and Faratin Auction were the tested, being the CNP the selected protocol for
this problem. Also addressing the distributed nature of the system, some efforts were
focused on the security of the messages exchanged between the agents was proposed using
Secure Socket Layer (SSL).
The proposed multi-agent systems architecture was implemented using JADE (Java
Agent DEvelopment Framework), which is a FIPA-compliant agent development framework
that simplifies the development of agent-based applications. The exchange of messages
follows the FIPA-ACL protocol using the CNP protocol for the negotiation. The
communication between the agents and the User Interface is performed through the use
of Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol.
Description
Mestrado de dupla diplomação com a UTFPR - Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná
Keywords
Smart parking Multi-agent system Architecture Negotiation protocols