Automation of Message Interchange Process in Maritime Transport
Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, Grzegorz Hołowiński, Janusz Magaj, Jaroslaw Chomski · 2012
Some shipboard systems and equipment (AIS, GMDSS, ARPA, Navtex, and GPS) are used in the automation of information acquisition and exchange. However, these systems do not ensure exchange of information in complex situations, where cooperation between navigators (or coast station officers, helicopter pilots, etc.) has to be established. The automation of the message interchange process in maritime transport could support navigators in this case. Moreover, such automation is a basis for further development of more complex, agent based navigation support system including an automated negotiation layer. Such automated negotiation systems are well known in e-business and trading environments and presented, among others, in Beam 1997, Paurobally 2003, Karp 2004.