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Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 26 No. 3, pp. 883-896 (May 2010)

Tracking Reported Vehicles in Traffic Management and Information System using Intelligent Junctions

ATILLA ELCI1, BEHNAM RAHNAMA2 AND AMIRHASAN AMINTABAR3
1Computer Engineering Program
Middle East Technical University
Kalkanli, North Cyprus, Mersin 10, Turkey
2Department of Computer Engineering
European University of Lefke
Gemikonagi-Lefke, North Cyprus, Mersin 10, Turkey
3School of Computer Science
University of Windsor
Ontario, N9B3P4 Canada

This study highlights a security scenario involving vehicles in a Traffic Management and Information System (TMIS) network. TMIS and its nodal architecture, nicknamed Intelligent Junction (IJ), are summarized from our recent work. System design sets an example to a software architecture implementing autonomous semantic agents through semantic web services, junction-based sensor networks, local- and wide-area networking through wire/wireless integrated communication infrastructure. It is so construed as to provide (near-) real-time services throughout the network. This introduction is with reference to the SOA of Cooperative Labyrinth Discovery Robotics and Traffic Management and Information System Projects. This also takes up several issues including realtime goal-oriented coordination of semantic web services. Especially described are its essential functions crucial to aid security applications. A security scenario concerning tracking and routing reported, say missing, vehicles is considered and shown how to graft it onto TMIS network. Simulation results show promising outcomes. Performance of the system in terms of mean response time is analytically derived. Simulation and analytical results agree. Research involving similar development base is suggested.

Keywords: semantic web services (SWS), multi-agent systems, intelligent junction, TMIS, vehicle tracking, traffic network, service ontology

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Received March 31, 2009; accepted September 30, 2009.
Communicated by Chih-Yung Chang, Chien-Chung Shen, Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, and Yu-Chee Tseng.