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Intelligent Transportation Systems – Maybe, But Where Are My Agents?

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Significant advances in wireless communication technologies and mobile devices have led to their widespread use. For example, the so-called Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), which encompass a wide range of advanced applications for transportation, have attracted a lot of attention. In this context, one could think that software agents, which can have properties such as intelligence and autonomy, are expected to play a key role. But is this the case? Are they being used in work related to ITS and/or vehicular networks? Could they really provide benefits? In this paper, we analyze the state of the art and draw some conclusions about the potential interest of mixing these two fields.

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  1. University of Valenciennes, Valenciennes, France

    Thierry Delot

  2. University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

    Sergio Ilarri & María del Carmen Rodríguez-Hernández

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    Natalie Mitton

  2. Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

    Antoine Gallais

  3. Clarkson University, New York, USA

    Melike Erol Kantarci

  4. National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Symeon Papavassiliou

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Delot, T., Ilarri, S., del Carmen Rodríguez-Hernández, M. (2014). Intelligent Transportation Systems – Maybe, But Where Are My Agents?. In: Mitton, N., Gallais, A., Kantarci, M., Papavassiliou, S. (eds) Ad Hoc Networks. ADHOCNETS 2015. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 140. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13329-4_4

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