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Accessing the University of Liège without a car is not optimal. Parking spots are a scarce resource. Moving from one building to another with public transportation is unpractical. Distances are too large to travel by foot. Biking is not really an option, because few secured parking spots and charging stations for electric bikes are available.

The goal of this thesis is to ease accessing, leaving, and moving around the university, by leveraging the empty space in the fleet of cars of the University members.

Practically, this means we want to create an ergonomic system to offer empty seats and to ask for lifts,
to, from, and between ULg locations. This system should thus, from the end-user point of view, be available on smart-phones. Offers and demands should be centralised and re-dispatched in a smart way to propose simple and efficient combinations to end-users, and in real-time.

This work consists in the development of an Android application providing carpooling functionalities, enhancing the back-end system developed in the context of another project, authored by PhD student Thibaut Cuvelier, who implemented a first version of a website providing basic matching between drivers and passengers, based on a static graph including the most important towns around the University of Liège.

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Supply and Demand Management in Ride-Sourcing Markets offers a fundamental modeling framework for characterizing ride-sourcing markets by spelling out the complex relationships among key endogenous and exogenous variables in the markets. This book establishes several economic models that can approximate matching frictions between drivers and passengers, describes the equilibrium state of ride-sourcing markets, and more. Based on these models, the book develops an optimum strategy (in terms of trip fare, wage and/or matching) that maximizes platform profit. While the best social optimum solution (for maximizing the social welfare) is generally unsustainable, this book provides options governments can use to encourage second-best solutions. In addition, the book's authors establish models to analyze ride-pooling services, with traffic congestion externalities incorporated into models to see how both new platforms and government designs can optimize operating strategies in response to the level of traffic congestion.

Slugging (Ridesharing) --- Casual carpooling --- Dynamic carpooling --- Informal ridesharing --- Instant car pools --- Slug lines (Ridesharing) --- Ridesharing --- Ridesharing. --- Supply and demand --- Mathematical models. --- Ride-sharing --- Commuting --- Local transit --- Shared taxi services

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This Special Issue ""Multi-Agent Systems"" gathers original research articles reporting results on the steadily growing area of agent-oriented computing and multi-agent systems technologies. After more than 20 years of academic research on multi-agent systems (MASs), in fact, agent-oriented models and technologies have been promoted as the most suitable candidates for the design and development of distributed and intelligent applications in complex and dynamic environments. With respect to both their quality and range, the papers in this Special Issue already represent a meaningful sample of the most recent advancements in the field of agent-oriented models and technologies. In particular, the 17 contributions cover agent-based modeling and simulation, situated multi-agent systems, socio-technical multi-agent systems, and semantic technologies applied to multi-agent systems. In fact, it is surprising to witness how such a limited portion of MAS research already highlights the most relevant usage of agent-based models and technologies, as well as their most appreciated characteristics. We are thus confident that the readers of Applied Sciences will be able to appreciate the growing role that MASs will play in the design and development of the next generation of complex intelligent systems. This Special Issue has been converted into a yearly series, for which a new call for papers is already available at the Applied Sciences journal’s website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Multi-Agent_Systems_2019.

multi-agent systems --- agent development framework --- semantic web --- online double auction --- agent development methodology --- intelligent agents --- travel behavior --- computational accountability --- coordinated control --- directed graph --- agent methodologies --- surface vehicle --- SEA_ML --- sociogram --- formation tracking --- socio-technical systems --- agreement technologies --- electronic bartering system --- delay --- social commitments --- human-machine interaction --- regression models --- collision avoidance --- electric vehicles --- mechanism design --- model-driven development --- agent technology --- multi agent systems --- computer science --- 3D representation --- multiagent systems --- scaled consensus --- multi-agent simulation --- multiple passive agents --- type-2 fuzzy inference system --- Artificial Intelligence --- bike sharing systems (BSS) --- trajectory mining --- Mobile Robot Navigation --- open data --- RBFNNs --- agent-based programming --- methodologies for agent-based systems --- socio–technical systems --- underactuated vehicle --- BDI agents --- autonomous agents --- Behavior Trees (BTs) --- coordination models --- pedestrian environment --- person tracking --- cognitive disabilities --- coordination --- commuting --- genetic algorithm --- ontology --- Genetic Programming (GP) --- user interaction levels --- intelligent hybrid systems --- complex network --- agent-oriented technologies --- agent-based modeling --- network management --- behavior modeling --- semantic web service --- mobile communication --- smart cities --- mobile device agent --- organizational model --- [-5]agent-based simulation --- agent-based social simulation --- agent-based simulation --- data visualization --- linked data --- ambient intelligence --- orientation --- velocity obstacle --- multi-agent system --- kinodynamic planning --- agent-based modelling --- charging stations --- organizations and institutions --- agent behavior --- tree mining --- agent-oriented software engineering --- carpooling --- perishable goods