Socially rational agents in spatial land use planning: A heuristic proposal based negotiation mechanism

摘要

This paper introduces a novel heuristic based negotiation model for urban land use planning by using multi-agent systems. The model features two kinds of agents: facilitator and advocate. Facilitator agent runs the negotiation according to a certain protocol that defines the procedure. Two roles are designated for advocate agent in the negotiation process: speaker and listener roles. Advocate agents act as a speaker on a regular basis and its role is to propose a modification of land use plan for the listener agents. The role of listener agent is to express his opinion about the proposed plan.