Jadex BDI Agents Integrated with MATSim for Autonomous Mobility on Demand

This paper presents our extension for the BDI-ABM interface, which provides a connection layer for BDI agents to interact with Agent-based Models (ABM) such as simulation platforms in an integrated Multi-Agent System (MAS). We introduce a new version of the ABM-Jadex layer, which allows attaching BDI Agents developed with Jadex, an Agent Development Framework, to the MATSim traffic simulation environment. We introduce cognitive vehicle agents capable of negotiating among themselves via the contract net protocol. The scalability of the integrated MAS architecture is tested in the first experiments simulating the behavior of a fleet of autonomous e-trikes.