Summary of Smart Recommendations For Renting Bikes in Bike Sharing Systems, by Holger Billhardt et al.
Smart Recommendations for Renting Bikes in Bike Sharing Systems
by Holger Billhardt, Alberto Fernández, Sascha Ossowski
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed paper presents a novel approach to addressing agglutination problems in station-based bike-sharing systems. By combining queuing theory and utility-based recommendations, the authors aim to balance the distribution of bikes and slots across different stations. This is achieved by recommending stations that offer lower distance and higher probability of finding available bikes or slots. The authors also introduce a global system utility measure, which considers the future demand for bikes and slots to implicitly alleviate balancing problems. The proposed approach is evaluated using real-world data from the BiciMAD bike-sharing system in Madrid. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper focuses on solving agglutination problems in bike-sharing systems by recommending stations to users based on utility. This means suggesting places where users are more likely to find available bikes or slots, while also considering the global impact of their actions. The authors propose two strategies: one that recommends stations based on individual user preferences and another that combines personal and system utilities. They test these approaches using real data from Madrid’s bike-sharing system. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Probability
