Applying Strategic Multiagent Planning to Real-World Travel Sharing Problems

Jan Hrnčíř; Michael Rovatsos

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Applying Strategic Multiagent Planning to Real-World Travel Sharing Problems

Jan Hrnčíř·Michael Rovatsos

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Travel sharing, i.e., the problem of finding parts of routes which can be shared by several travellers with different points of departure and destinations, is a complex multiagent problem that requires taking into account individual agents' preferences to come up with mutually acceptable joint plans. In this paper, we apply state-of-the-art planning techniques to real-world public transportation data to evaluate the feasibility of multiagent planning techniques in this domain. The potential application value of improving travel sharing technology has great application value due to its ability to reduce the environmental impact of travelling while providing benefits to travellers at the same time. We propose a three-phase algorithm that utilises performant single-agent planners to find individual plans in a simplified domain first, then merges them using a best-response planner which ensures resulting solutions are individually rational, and then maps the resulting plan onto the full temporal planning domain to schedule actual journeys. The evaluation of our algorithm on real-world, multi-modal public transportation data for the United Kingdom shows linear scalability both in the scenario size and in the number of agents, where trade-offs have to be made between total cost improvement, the percentage of feasible timetables identified for journeys, and the prolongation of these journeys. Our system constitutes the first implementation of strategic multiagent planning algorithms in large-scale domains and provides insights into the engineering process of translating general domain-independent multiagent planning algorithms to real-world applications.

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Jan Hrnčíř, Michael Rovatsos. 2013-01-02. Applying Strategic Multiagent Planning to Real-World Travel Sharing Problems. https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.0216

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