Spatio-temporal Competition for Transportation Resources

A lot of work has been devoted to collaboration among distributed computing devices. Sensor networks and crowdsourcing are prominent examples of distributed collaborative computing. Much less attention has been paid to competition among computing agents, particularly the type that we call spatio-temporal competition. In it mobile agents compete for point resources located in space. An example of such competition is drivers, guided by their smartphones, attempting to park, they are competing for a limited number of parking spaces. This is an example, but spatio-temporal competition arises in many other transportation applications. Furthermore, it gives rise to new research problems which will be described in this presentation.