1. ECE 449/549 Homework #1
Create a taxi company model and run experiments in DEVSJAVA environment.
Submit a short report on the model assumptions, model diagram, performance
Experimentation results, and lessons learned.
Send the executable model codes and the report to by
5 pm, September 25th.
Models : Taxi Company has a central dispatcher and five taxis traveling 20 square miles within a city.
Central dispatcher model receives a call from a customer. Then, dispatcher locates the nearest
available taxi and assign pickup and destination information to the taxi.
A taxi model is in waiting mode until it is assigned to a customer for pick up, travels
to a destination for an estimated time, and reports to dispatcher its arrival to destination.
Basic Assumptions : i) A basic block of city area is one square mile.
ii) Generator model of Experimental Frame is generating a message of “customer id,
pickup address, destination address, estimated travel time” at a reasonable rate,
where addresses are within 20 square miles.
iii) Dispatcher model keeps incoming customer calls in a queue until it finds
an available taxi.