System Simulation For The Evaluation Of The Oil Barge Operation In Kaohsiung Harbor, Taiwan
Yang-Chi Chang, Chih‐Cheng Chen · WIT transactions on the built environment · 2002
The oil barge operation in Kaohsiung harbor is a typical system of resources allocation problems in a complex and dynamic environment, Such system is far more difilcult to deal with than a static and deterministic system, and often depends on experienced human experts for the oil barge assignment. This research has developed an integrated system for assessing the overall performance of such port operation. Both expert system and system simulation techniques are applied in this analysis. The role of the expert system is to translate the current heuristic of assignment into a rule-based knowledge for the human-like reasoning. To further evaluate the schedule arranged by the expert system, the system simulation model of the oil barge operation has been formulated using the software AweSirn@. This model is capable of quantifying the service quality under various assignment scenarios to support the management of the oil barge operation. With the help of such an integrated system, it is expected to facilitate the evaluation of the oil barge operation in terms of efficient resources allocation in Kaohsiung harlm.