Allows to represent agent coordination, for social travel and activities.
The most important part of this extension is a modification of the MATSim co-evolutionary algorithm itself, allowing to represent joint decisions, that is, agreements that have an influence on the utility of a day.
More detailed discussion may be found in the following publications:- Dubernet, T. (2017) Explicitly Correlating Agent’s Daily Plans in a Multiagent Transport Simulation: Towards the Consideration of Social Relationships, PhD thesis.
- Dubernet, T. (2016) Joint decisions, in A. Horni, K. Nagel and K. Axhausen (eds), The multi-agent transport simulation MATSim, 139–146
- Dubernet, T. and K. W. Axhausen (2013) Including joint decision mechanisms in a multiagent transport simulation, Transportation Letters, 5 (4) 175–183
- Dubernet, T. and K. W. Axhausen (2014) Solution Concepts for the Simulation of Household-Level Joint Decision Making in Multi-Agent Travel Simulation Tools, paper presented at the 14th Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, May 2014.
- Dubernet, T. and K. W. Axhausen (2015) Implementing a household joint activity-travel multi-agent simulation tool: First results, Transportation
More details about the implementation are presented in
the documentation of the org.matsim.contrib.socnetsim package