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International Workshop on Massively Multiagent Systems

MMAS 2018: Massively Multi-Agent Systems II pp 144–162Cite as

BASIC: Towards a Blockchained Agent-Based SImulator for Cities

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Abstract

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs), drones and robots will revolutionize our way of travelling and understanding urban space. In order to operate, all of these devices are expected to collect and analyze a lot of sensitive data about our daily activities. However, current operational models for these devices have extensively relied on centralized models of managing these data. The security of these models unveiled significant issues. This paper proposes BASIC, the Blockchained Agent-based Simulator for Cities. This tool aims to verify the feasibility of the use of blockchain in simulated urban scenarios by considering the communication between agents through smart contracts. In order to test the proposed tool, we implemented a car-sharing model within the city of Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA). In this research, the relevant literature was explored, new methods were developed and different solutions were designed and tested. Finally, conclusions about the feasibility of the combination between blockchain technology and agent-based simulations were drawn.

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Notes

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    https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS.

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    http://www.gama-platform.org/.

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    https://bitcoin.org/.

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    https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block.

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    https://www.ethereum.org/ether.

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    https://www.ethereum.org/.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_contract.

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    https://www.docker.com/.

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    https://github.com/agrignard/Basic.git.

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    https://docker-py.readthedocs.io/en/stable/client.html.

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    https://web3js.readthedocs.io/en/1.0/web3-eth.html.

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    https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/wiki/geth.

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    https://datausa.io/profile/geo/cambridge-ma/.

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    http://www.focas.eu/manifesto/ - FoCAS Manifesto: A roadmap to the future of Collective Adaptive Systems.

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This project has received funding from the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 751615.

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  1. Ecole polytechnique de Bruxelles, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Luana Marrocco

  2. MIT Media Lab, Massaschusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Eduardo Castelló Ferrer, Arnaud Grignard, Luis Alonso, Kent Larson & Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland

  3. Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Via Sommarive, 18, Trento, Italy

    Antonio Bucchiarone

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Marrocco, L. et al. (2019). BASIC: Towards a Blockchained Agent-Based SImulator for Cities. In: Lin, D., Ishida, T., Zambonelli, F., Noda, I. (eds) Massively Multi-Agent Systems II. MMAS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11422. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20937-7_10

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