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This paper describes the experiments and results obtained from distributing an improved insertion heuristic for the scheduling of passengers’ trip requests over a fleet of vehicles. The distribution has been obtained by means of an agent architecture implemented over Jade. Agents make use of the contract-net protocol as base coordination mechanism for the planning and scheduling of passenger trips. In particular, this paper focuses on the insertion heuristic implementation details within the agent-based architecture and its performance in diverse distributed scenarios when varying the number of hosts.
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Cubillos, C., Crawford, B., Rodríguez, N. (2007). Distributed Planning for the On-Line Dial-a-Ride Problem. In: Preparata, F.P., Fang, Q. (eds) Frontiers in Algorithmics. FAW 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4613. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73814-5_12
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