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Cools, SB., Gershenson, C., D’Hooghe, B. (2008). Self-Organizing Traffic Lights: A Realistic Simulation. In: Prokopenko, M. (eds) Advances in Applied Self-organizing Systems. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-982-8_3
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