Slim Hammadi & Mekki Ksouri 
Advanced Mobility and Transport Engineering [EPUB ebook] 

Preface xi
Slim HAMMADI and Mekki KSOURI
Introduction xiii
Chapter 1. Agent-oriented Road Traffic Simulation 1
René MANDIAU, Sylvain PIECHOWIAK, Arnaud DONIEC and
Stéphane ESPIÉ
1.1. Introduction 1
1.2. The principle of multi-agent systems 2
1.3. General remarks on traffic simulation devices 8
1.4. Archi Sim simulator 12
1.5. The issue of traffic simulation in intersections 14
1.6. Assessment of different scenarios 21
1.7. Conclusion 25
1.8. Bibliography 26
Chapter 2. An Agent-based Information System for Searching
and Creating Mobility-aiding Services 31
Slim HAMMADI and Hayfa ZGAYA
2.1. Introduction 31
2.2. Formulating the problem 33
2.3. The global architecture of the system 36
2.4. Proposal of a resolution system with several interactive
entities: a dynamic multi-agent system 42
2.5. The behavior of a scheduling agent 44
2.6. Managing system robustness when dealing with disruptions:
advancing a negotiation process between stationary and mobile
entities 59
2.7. The usefulness of a dedicated dynamic ontology 61
2.8. Simulations and results 64
2.9. Conclusion and perspectives 76
2.10. List of abbreviations 76
2.11. Bibliography 77
Chapter 3. Inter-vehicle Services and Communication
81
Sylvain LECOMTE, Thierry DELOT and Mikael DESERTOT
3.1. Introduction 81
3.2. The specificity of inter-vehicle communication 84
3.3. Inter-vehicle communication 91
3.4. Deployment and maintenance 95
3.5. What kind of future can we envisage for inter-vehicle
services and communication technologies? 107
3.6. Bibliography 107
Chapter 4. Modeling and Control of Traffic Flow 111
Daniel JOLLY, Boumediene KAMEL and Amar BENASSER
4.1. General introduction 111
4.2. Microscopic models 114
4.3. Macroscopic models 118
4.4. General remarks concerning macroscopic and microscopic
models 127
4.5. Hybrid models 129
4.6. Different strategies for controlling road traffic flow
systems 147
4.7. Conclusion 164
4.8. Bibliography 164
Chapter 5. Criteria and Methods for Interactive System
Evaluation: Application to a Regulation Post in the Transport
Domain 173
Houcine EZZEDINE, Abdelwaheb TRABELSI, Chi Dung TRAN and
Christophe KOLSKI
5.1. Introduction 173
5.2. Principles and criteria of evaluation 174
5.3. Methods, techniques and tools for the evaluation of
interactive systems 181
5.4. Toward automated or semi-automated evaluation assistance
tools 201
5.5. Proposal of a generic and configurable environment to aid
in the evaluation of agent-based interactive systems: EISEval
213
5.6. Context of operation of the proposed evaluation environment
217
5.7. Conclusion 228
5.8. Bibliography 230
List of Authors 241
Index 245

Mr. Hammadi is Full Professor at the Ecole Centrale de Lille and Director of the LAGIS Team on Optimization of Logistic systems.
Mr. Ksouri is Professor; Head of Systems Analysis, Conception and Control Laboratory (Tunis El Manar University, National School of Engineer of Tunis ENIT).