Abstract: The management and proper use of the Urban Public Transport Systems (UPTS) constitute a field as critical as little investigated according to its relevance and urgent idiosyncrasy within smart cities realm. In this paper, a newfangled approach by using the Natural Computing paradigm and Collective Computation is shown, more concretely taking advantage of an Ant Colony Optimization algorithm variation in order to build a system that makes the complete control of the UPTS a tangible reality.

Keywords: Smart City, Natural Computing, Collective Computation, Urban Public Transport System, Wireless Sensor Networks

ACM Classification Keywords: 10003120.10003138: Human-centered computing - Ubiquitous and mobile computting, 10010147.10010178: Computing methodologies - Artificial intelligence, 10010147.10010257.10010293.10011809: Computing methodologies - Bio-inspired approaches, 10010405.10010481.10010485: Applied computing - Transportation

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COLLECTIVE COMPUTATION: TURNING THE UNDERGROUND INTO AN ANT NEST

Clemencio Morales, Luis Fernando de Mingo

http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol23/ijita23-01-p02.pdf