ON DEVELOPMENT OF MULTI-AGENT SIMULATION FOR RECOVERY PROCESS OF LIFELINE DAMAGED BY EARTHQUAKE

Abstract

 In the view of recovery planning for lifelines damaged by earthquake, this paper seeks to develop a multi-agent simulation (MAS) for recovery process of lifelines. The process is formulated as a discrete resource allocation problem, and an MAS is used as a numerical method to solve it. The MAS takes advantage of object oriented programming, being capable of handling various kinds of lifelines as well as their engineers and users. Automatic model construction is studied. The validity of the MAS is veried by solving simple problems, and the potential usefulness is discussed.