Enemy At The Gates: Introduction Of Multi-Agents In A Terminal Information Community
Lawrence Edward Henesey, Johanna Törnquist · WIT transactions on the built environment · 2002
Container terminals in Europe play a significant role as nodes within logistics chains. The management of container transportation system is a decentralized, often poorly structured, complex, and changeable problem domain, Therefore we propose that a Multi-Agent System (MAS) approach would offer port and terminal actors (e.g. rail operators), a suitable means of control, coordination, and management in the container terminal domain, Ports, as nodes, accept and deliver freight from various modes of transport and offer services that ald value to the freight. In order to plan the activities in the terminals, continuous and reliable information on the cargos’ physical status (e.g. position, condition) is paramount to other activities. Integrating the information flows from the various transport providers and actors would improve the planning for the terminals and benefit planning and scheduling for the others in the chain. Through the