To BDI, or not to BDI: Design choices in an agent-based traffic flow management simulation

Proceedings of the 2008 Spring Simulation Multiconference, SpringSim'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 63-70

  Wolfe, Shawn R ^a   Sierhuis, Maarten ^b   Jarvis, Peter A ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Air traffic control; Belief Desire Intent; Efficiency

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED; AGENT PARADIGM; AIR TRAFFIC FLOW MANAGEMENT; BDI AGENT; BELIEF-DESIRE-INTENT; BELIEF-DESIRE-INTENTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL OVERHEADS; EXECUTION TIME; TRAFFIC FLOW MANAGEMENT;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONTROL TOWERS; FLOW SIMULATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; TRAFFIC SURVEYS;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EID: 70249146190     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1400549.1400558     Document Type: Conference Paper

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