Practical multi-agent system application for simulation of tourists in Madrid routes with INGENIAS

Abstract

The tourism can promote a way out of the crisis in Spain and other European countries. In fact, some research projects are funding the development of applications that can increase the tourist activities in different cities. In particular, this work has been supported in a research project in this context for Madrid routes. This work presents a Multi-agent System (MAS) that simulates the tourist behaviors when signing up for a set of Madrid routes. The goal of this application is to guide the tourism experts for selecting a set of routes that are useful for promoting tourism in Madrid, in a balanced way, so that the different tourism locations are full but not overcrowded. This MAS has been developed following the INGENIAS methodology, with an adaptation for MAS simulations. The resulting application has been run with 92 agents and 50 iterations over 10 Madrid routes, showing results that allow tourism experts to improve the set of the offered Madrid routes. © 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland.