SYSTEM SIMULATION FOR THE EVALUATION OF THE OIL BARGE OPERATION IN KAOHSIUNG HARBOR, TAIWAN. IN: MARITIME ENGINEERING AND PORTS III
Yang-Chi Chang, C C Chen · Publication of: WIT Press · 2002
The oil barge operation in Kaohsiung harbor is a typical system of resource allocation problems in a complex and dynamic environment. Such a system is far more difficult 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.