Multiagent service architectures for bus fleet management

Multi-Agent Systems for Decision Support: A Case Study in the Transportation Management Domain

“…and their subsequent mapping to agent types, the MAs may be subdivided into several agents. Also note that the abstract architecture shown in Figure 2 comprises a set of so-called peripheral agents: This includes directory facilitators (DF) and an agent management systems (AMS) as required by the FIPA abstract architecture, but may also include third-party peripheral agents (PA) that supply added value services (Fern a andez et al 2004).…”