Christine Fricker ; Nicolas Gast ; Hanene Mohamed - Mean field analysis for inhomogeneous bike sharing systems

dmtcs:3006 - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, January 1, 2012, DMTCS Proceedings vol. AQ, 23rd Intern. Meeting on Probabilistic, Combinatorial, and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA'12) - https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.3006
Mean field analysis for inhomogeneous bike sharing systems

Authors: Christine Fricker 1; Nicolas Gast ORCID-iD2,3; Hanene Mohamed 4

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In the paper, bike sharing systems with stations having a finite capacity are studied as stochastic networks. The inhomogeneity is modeled by clusters. We use a mean field limit to compute the limiting stationary distribution of the number of bikes at the stations. This method is an alternative to analytical methods. It can be used even if a closed form expression for the stationary distribution is out of reach as illustrated on a variant. Both models are compared. A practical conclusion is that avoiding empty or full stations does not improve overall performance.


Volume: DMTCS Proceedings vol. AQ, 23rd Intern. Meeting on Probabilistic, Combinatorial, and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA'12)
Section: Proceedings
Published on: January 1, 2012
Imported on: January 31, 2017
Keywords: [INFO.INFO-PF] Computer Science [cs]/Performance [cs.PF],[MATH.MATH-OC] Mathematics [math]/Optimization and Control [math.OC],[MATH.MATH-PR] Mathematics [math]/Probability [math.PR]

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