Spatiotemporal Modeling of the Smart City Residents’ Activity with Multi-Agent Systems

Abstract

The article proposes the concept of modeling that uses multi-agent systems of mutual interactions between city residents as well as interactions between residents and spatial objects. Adopting this perspective means treating residents, as well as buildings or other spatial objects, as distinct agents that exchange multifaceted packages of information in a dynamic and non-linear way. The exchanged information may be reinforced or diminished during the process, which may result in changing the social activity of the residents. Utilizing Latour’s actor–network theory, the authors developed a model for studying the relationship between demographic and social factors, and the diversified spatial arrangement and the structure of a city. This concept was used to model the level of residents’ trust spatiotemporally and, indirectly, to study the level of social (geo)participation in a smart city. The devised system, whose test implementation as an agent-based system was done in the GAMA: agent-based, spatially explicit, modeling and simulation platform, was tested on both model and real data. The results obtained for the model city and the capital of Poland, Warsaw, indicate the significant and interdisciplinary analytical and scientific potential of the authorial methodology in the domain of geospatial science, geospatial data models with multi-agent systems, spatial planning, and applied social sciences.

Special Issue “Multi-Agent Systems”: Editorial

“…In [7], an MAS is used in the context of social sciences to model residents in a smart city so as to study their social engagement during time (e.g., daylife vs. nightlife) and across space (city center vs. business district). The idea behind such a modeling is that activity of the residents are influenced by what others are doing and by environmental conditions, such as the presence of shops, events, etc., hence the social and situated nature of agents in an MAS is a perfect fit.…”

Quand les sciences sociales s’intéressent à la technologie : un état des lieux bibliographique des recherches sur la Smart city

“…Le processus est toujours considéré comme une transformation rationnelle à travers laquelle les technologies constituent les nouvelles « couches » d"infrastructures qui portent le développement des milieux urbains (Nath, A. 2017) (Olszewski, R., et al 2019).…”

Cluster-Delay Mean Square Consensus of Stochastic Multi-Agent Systems with Impulse Time Windows

“…In today's era, automation and intelligence are the mainstream directions of technological development. As a typical representative among them, multi-agent systems (MASs) [1] are widely used in epidemiology [2,3], sociology [4,5], engineering circles [6][7][8], and other fields with their powerful distributed integration capabilities. In [9,10], a concept called Holonic MAS was proposed, and subsequent researchers have achieved a series of meaningful results on this basis.…”