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Agent-based approach to illegal maritime behavior modeling

ISSN printed: 1733-8670, ISSN on-line: 2392-0378
Hrstka, Ondřej1; Vaňek, Ondřej2; Kopřiva, Štěpán3; Zelinka, Jiří4; Faigl, Jan5; Pěchouček, Michal6
URI: https://repository.am.szczecin.pl/handle/123456789/754
2015-06-10
Maritime shipping is a set of complex activities with a large number of actors involved. We focus on a subset of illegal maritime activities, such as armed robberies, maritime piracy or contraband smuggling. To fight against them and minimize their negative impact naval authorities typically introduce a number of countermeasures, such as deployed patrols or surveillance agents. Due to very high costs of countermeasures it is often beneficial to evaluate their impact using a simulation, allowing what-if analysis and evaluation of a range of scenarios before actually deploying the countermeasures. We introduce BANDIT, an agent-based computational platform, which is designed to evaluate scenarios with an accent on the modeling of different types of illegal behavior and on the interaction between agents. The platform consists of an agent behavior modeling system and a multi-agent maritime simulator. The platform allows the definition of a number of scenarios through a simple configuration and it offers the means to run these scenarios in a single or a batch mode and evaluate the results as single or aggregate data sets respectively. We demonstrate the usefulness of the platform on the scenarios of the drug smuggling problem in the seas surrounding Central America. Senario outcomes (e.g., heatmaps of activities, set of trajectories etc.) are subsequently used to help with the design of effective countermeasures, i.e., allocating naval patrols and planning their patrol routes.
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Title

Agent-based approach to illegal maritime behavior modeling

Pages

10-111

Figures

8

Tables

0

ISSN printed

1733-8670

ISSN on-line

2392-0378

DOI

10.17402/026

Type

Review article

Journal

42 Scientific Journals of the Maritime University of Szczecin, no. 42 / 2015

Publisher

Scientific Journals Maritime University of Szczecin, Zeszyty Naukowe Akademia Morska w Szczecinie

Copyright Holder

Scientific Journals Maritime University of Szczecin, Zeszyty Naukowe Akademia Morska w Szczecinie

Published

2015-06-10

Recieved

2015-04-10

Accepted

2015-05-09

Funding

The research presented in this paper was supported by the Office of Naval Research grant No. N62909-14-1-N231 and by the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) under research project No. 13-18316P.

Keywords

simulation, multi-agent systems, behavior modeling, drug interdiction, illegal behavior, maritime

URI:

https://repository.am.szczecin.pl/handle/123456789/754

Language

English

Authors

Hrstka, Ondřej1; Vaňek, Ondřej2; Kopřiva, Štěpán3; Zelinka, Jiří4; Faigl, Jan5; Pěchouček, Michal6

Affiliation

1 Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Computer Science Technicka 2, Praha 6, Czech Republic, hrstka@agents.fel.cvut.cz
2 Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Computer Science Technicka 2, Praha 6, Czech Republic, vanek@agents.fel.cvut.cz
3 Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Computer Science Technicka 2, Praha 6, Czech Republic, kopriva@agents.fel.cvut.cz
4 Baktun s.r.o, Pražská 596, Městec Králové, Czech Republic, jiri.zelinka@blindspot-solutions.com
5 Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Computer Science Technicka 2, Praha 6, Czech Republic, faigl@blindspot-solutions.com
6 Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Computer Science Technicka 2, Praha 6, Czech Republic, pechoucek@blindspot-solutions.com

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