Multimodal transport network customers need to be directed during their travels. A travel support tool can be offered by a Multimodal Information System (MIS), which allows them to input their needs and provides them with the appropriate responses to improve their travel conditions. The goal of this book is to design and develop methodologies in order to realize a MIS tool which can ensure permanent multimodal information availability before and during travel, considering passengers’ mobility. The authors propose methods and tools that help transport network customers to formulate their requests when they connect to their favorite information systems through PC, laptop, cell phone, Portable Digital Assistant (PDA), etc. The MIS must automatically identify the websites concerning the customer’s services. These sites can, in fact, represent transport services, cultural services, tourist services, etc. The system should then be able to collect the necessary travel information from these sites in order to construct and propose the most convenient information according to the user’s requests. Contents 1. Agent-oriented Road Traffic Simulation, René Mandiau, Sylvain Piechowiak, Arnaud Doniec and Stéphane Espié. 2. An Agent-based Information System for Searching and Creating Mobility-aiding Services, Slim Hammadi and Hayfa Zgaya. 3. Inter-vehicle Services and Communication, Sylvain Lecomte, Thierry Delot and Mikael Desertot. 4. Modeling and Control of Traffic Flow, Daniel Jolly, Boumediene Kamel and Amar Benasser. 5. Criteria and Methods for Interactive System Evaluation: Application to a Regulation Post in the Transport Domain, Houcine Ezzedine, Abdelwaheb Trabelsi, Chi Dung Tran and Christophe Kolski.

L'EVALUATION DES SYSTEMES INTERACTIFS EST SOURCE DE NOMBREUSES DIFFICULTES, AUSSI BIEN POUR LES SPECIALISTES DE LA COMMUNICATION HOMME-MACHINE QUE POUR LES NON-SPECIALISTES. LA QUALITE DE L'EVALUATION DEPEND DE PARAMETRES VARIES ET SOUVENT CONTRADICTOIRES. EN EFFET, EN PLUS DES PROBLEMES DE PROCEDURE, DE METHODOLOGIE ET D'ORGANISATION QUE PEUVENT RENCONTRER LES EVALUATEURS DES INTERFACES HOMME(S)-MACHINE(S) (IHM), LE PROBLEME CAPITAL AUQUEL SONT CONFRONTES LES EVALUATEURS EST CELUI DU CHOIX DES METHODES ET TECHNIQUES APPROPRIEES POUR L'EVALUATION D'UN SYSTEME INTERACTIF DONNE. SELON LE CONTEXTE INTERNATIONAL LIE A L'UTILISATION DU SYSTEME INTERACTIF, LES ASPECTS SOCIO-CULTURELS DOIVENT DANS CERTAINS CAS ETRE AUSSI CONSIDERES. AINSI, POUR AIDER LES EVALUATEURS DANS LE PROCESSUS D'EVALUATION, IL EXISTE PLUSIEURS TYPES D'OUTILS D'AIDE A L'EVALUATION DONT LES NIVEAUX D'AIDE SONT TRES VARIABLES. ON CONSTATE QU'AUCUN DES OUTILS EXISTANTS NE PROPOSE AUX EVALUATEURS LES METHODES APPROPRIEES AU CONTEXTE DE L'EVALUATION ET AUCUN NE PERMET AUX EVALUATEURS DE PRENDRE EN COMPTE LES ASPECTS SOCIO-CULTURELS, EN PLUS DES ASPECTS PRATIQUES LIES A L'UTILITE ET L'UTILISABILITE DU SYSTEME VISE. POURTANT, LE PROBLEME DU CHOIX DES METHODES ET TECHNIQUES D'EVALUATION DES IHM CONSTITUE L'UNE DES ETAPES LES PLUS IMPORTANTES DANS LE PROCESSUS D'EVALUATION CAR LES OBJECTIFS RECHERCHES ET LA QUALITE DE L'EVALUATION VONT DEPENDRE DES METHODES ET TECHNIQUES CHOISIES PAR LES EVALUATEURS. C'EST DANS CE CONTEXTE QUE SE SITUE NOTRE RECHERCHE VISANT UN SYSTEME D'AIDE A LA DECISION FAISANT APPEL AUX SOUS-ENSEMBLES FLOUS. LA PREMIERE MAQUETTE DU SYSTEME D'AIDE A LA DECISION EST IMPLEMENTEE AVEC PROLOG III. LA MAQUETTE A FAIT L'OBJET D'UNE VALIDATION TECHNIQUE SUR DEUX SCENARIOS REELS.

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