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Planning vehicle transhipment in a seaport automobile terminal using a multi-agent system

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A multi-agent system (MAS) for supporting the planning of transhipments of imported finished vehicles via a seaport is presented. The focus is on storage allocation, i.e. the allocation of parking areas for the temporary storage of vehicles, and on deployment scheduling, i.e. the allocation of drivers to the vehicles that have to be moved in the terminal area. These planning tasks, which in practice are usually carried out by different operators, are assigned to two different agent types. A further agent, the coordinator agent, is responsible for combining the local sub-plans into an overall plan in such a way that the demand for drivers in the planning period is minimised and balanced. The MAS is tested using randomly generated problem instances with different distributions of the manufacturer shares in the vehicle streams. The tests verify a certain robustness of the MAS with regard to changes in the problem data, in particular to the number of permanently employed drivers and the cost surcharge for hired drivers. In addition, the results highlight that the minimum overall (relative) costs of the drivers depends on the number of permanently employed drivers and on the level of the cost surcharge for hired drivers.

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Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

European Journal of Operational Research

No. Panggil

ATC LO GEH p

Penerbit

Germany : Emerald., 2004

Deskripsi Fisik

15 p.

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

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Klasifikasi

LO

Tipe Isi

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

volume 166 2005 726–740

Subjek

Logistics
Multi-agent systems
Supply chain management,
Genetic algorithms

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

H. Gehring

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