Towards Smart Open Dynamic Fleets

  • Holger Billhardt
  • Alberto Fernández
  • Marin Lujak
  • Sascha Ossowski
  • Vicente Julián
  • Juan F. De Paz
  • Josefa Z. Hernández
Conference paper
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 9571)

Abstract

Nowadays, vehicles of modern fleets are endowed with advanced devices that allow the operators of a control center to have global knowledge about fleet status, including existing incidents. Fleet management systems support real-time decision making at the control center so as to maximize fleet performance. In this paper, setting out from our experience in dynamic coordination of fleet management systems, we focus on fleets that are open, dynamic and highly autonomous. Furthermore, we propose how to cope with the scalability problem as the number of vehicles grows. We present our proposed architecture for open fleet management systems and use the case of taxi services as example of our proposal.

Keywords

Multiagent systems Coordination Open systems Dynamic fleet management Dynamic optimization 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Holger Billhardt
    • 1
  • Alberto Fernández
    • 1
  • Marin Lujak
    • 1
  • Sascha Ossowski
    • 1
  • Vicente Julián
    • 4
  • Juan F. De Paz
    • 3
  • Josefa Z. Hernández
    • 4
  1. 1.CETINIAUniversity Rey Juan CarlosMadridSpain
  2. 2.DSICUniversidad Politécnica de ValenciaValenciaSpain
  3. 3.BISITEUniversidad de SalamancaSalamancaSpain
  4. 4.DIAUniversidad Politécnica de MadridMadridSpain

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