Dr. Kazuo Miyashita, a senior researcher of the Intelligent Systems Research Institute (ISI), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), one of independent administrative institutions, succeeded in collaboration with the Allied Engineering Corporation (to be designated as "Allied", hereinafter) in developing a new theme park simulation software which automatically coordinates visitors' actions to elude congestions in the park. The simulation is based on the distributed scheduling method developed by the AIST with multi-agent simulators installed on the shared distributed memory system, developed by the Allied.
In many of large scale theme parks, which hosts tens of millions of people every year, measures are being actively sought for to enhance clients' satisfaction, so as to increase the number of frequent visitors.
Under such a circumstance, the present simulator allows assessing visitors' demands to the park quantitatively coordinating visitors' schedule and booking to events for ensuring even loading to attraction events through information exchange between visitors and attractions.
The smooth exchange of information between visitors and attractions is to be implemented in a ubiquitous computing environment, where technologies for position info detection, wireless communications, mobile info terminal, etc. are available to everyone, whenever and wherever needed. The conventional services in the ubiquitous computing environment have been designed for providing info to individual persons, and none of regulatory services for a mass of people have been taken into consideration. The present simulation verifies the effectiveness of such new services.
The simulator will be applied to data of real theme parks, to demonstrate how visitors' convenience is enhanced by the provision of booking function. Furthermore, it is intended to seek simulator application for clinical examination and diagnosis in hospitals, and other areas. A few patents are being filed in regard to this work.
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Fig. 1. Simulator configuration
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Fig. 2. Theme park scenario
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