Presentation given at European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Montpellier, FR for the workshop I co-chaired on Intelligent Agents in Urban Simulations and Smart Cities. Videos will not work...

1. City Knowledge
Fabio Carrera
Stephen Guerin
Intelligent Agents for Urban Simulations and Smart Cities workshop
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence Montpellier, France: August 27-31, 2012

2. Steve Guerin
• Santa Fe Complex
• Redfish.com
• BIOS group
• SFI Complexity Summer School
• Simtable.com
Fabio Carrera
• Associate Professor at WPI
• BSEE, MSCS (WPI)
• PhD in Urban Information Systems and Planning (MIT)
• FormaUrbis.com
• Venice and Santa Fe Project Centers (WPI)

3. BACKGROUND
Complex Adaptive Systems
City Knowledge

4. Boids
josh@stigmergic.net

5. Antz
dual gradients in ant foraging algorithm

6. Science of Cities – metabolic approach
• Gradients cause spontaneous entropy-increasing flows
• Non-spontaneous entropy-reducing processes are driven by
gradient

10. OUR EARLY CITY MODELS
Thin Agents (vs. “Thick”)
Early Applications
Limited Domains
Limited # of Agents

11. 2D Crowd Evacuations (90‟s)

12. Crowd Dynamics 2.5D space („04)

13. Crowd Egress from Pittsburgh’s PNC Park

15. Pedestrians and Changing Space („06)

17. THE CITY KNOWLEDGE PLATFORM
Urban Agents for Structures
Backlog vs. New Data
Admin Data
Sensors
Apps

18. Urban Agents for Structures

19. The City Knowledge Platform

20. Technology “under the hood”

21. Uploading the “Backlog”

22. The City Knowledge Console
Insert “Backlog”
One City = One Map
One Wiki Page for each Urban Element

23. Inputs and Outputs

24. Administrative Data
Energence.co.uk

25. “Humans as Sensors”
StreetBump

26. Citizen Data (Apps)
“Human in the Loop” InputApp.com

27. “Real Time” Updates
PreserVenice

28. Live Wiki Pages
Venipedia.org

29. CITY KNOWLEDGE + CITY MODELS

32. INTERACTING WITH MODELS
Ambient Computing

36. INTERACTING WITH MODELS
mobile devices and HTML5 models in the browser

37. Browser View Mobile Controller
no App to install
apps.simtable.com/flyto just a mobile URL
apps.simtable.com/flyto/control

40. http://apps.simtable.com/parkcity/

41. BEYOND MODELING
Agent-Oriented Programming of the City

42. • Citizens’ direct and unmediated interaction
with the City
• Citizens as Sensors and Actuators
• Regulation and urban structure evolves
through “dissipation of gradients”
• Transition from “agent-based modeling” to
“agent-oriented programming”

43. THANK YOU
Fabio Carrera
carrera@wpi.edu
venice2point0.blogspot.com
venice2point0.org
www.wpi.edu/~carrera
Stephen Guerin
stephen@redfish.com
www.redfish.com
www.sfcomplex.org

45. EXTRA BONUS MATERIAL
DIRECTOR‟S CUT

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