Multi-agent based Synchronous Communication for Dynamic Rescheduling in Railway Network

Krishnendu Kundu, Animesh Dutta

2017

Abstract

This paper presents a multi-agent based solution to change a predefined Railway schedule dynamically. This paper models a railway network consisting of passenger and freight trains, along with their fixed schedules following the rules of Indian Railways. The trains in the system are modelled as Train Agents and rail segments as Segment Agents. Delay of a single train due to unavoidable hazards like track related problems, rain, fog may cause severe delays for next trains in sequence. This paper proposes a method to suggest overtaking maneuvers for trains by passing different types of messages between Train Agents and Segment Agents. This paper proposes Selective Flooding of messages to avoid congestion overhead. All types of messages passed are elaborately described in the problem formulation section. This paper also contains a theoretical proof showing that Selective Flooding technique is always able to reach every node required. The proposed method has been simulated using JADE platform and the results are presented.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kundu K. and Dutta A. (2017). Multi-agent based Synchronous Communication for Dynamic Rescheduling in Railway Network . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-219-6, pages 137-144. DOI: 10.5220/0006120901370144

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart17,
author={Krishnendu Kundu and Animesh Dutta},
title={Multi-agent based Synchronous Communication for Dynamic Rescheduling in Railway Network},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2017},
pages={137-144},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006120901370144},
isbn={978-989-758-219-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - Multi-agent based Synchronous Communication for Dynamic Rescheduling in Railway Network
SN - 978-989-758-219-6
AU - Kundu K.
AU - Dutta A.
PY - 2017
SP - 137
EP - 144
DO - 10.5220/0006120901370144