Container handling using multi-agent architecture

International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 338-360

  Kefi, Meriam ^a   Ghédira, Khaled ^a   Korbaa, Ouajdi ^b   Yim, Pascal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANOUBA   (Tunisia)

^b ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Container stacking; Container terminal; Heuristics; Multi agent systems; Transportation

Indexed keywords

CONTAINERS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PORT TERMINALS; RAILROAD YARDS AND TERMINALS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; TRANSPORTATION;

CONTAINER HANDLING; CONTAINER TERMINAL; HEURISTICS; MULTI-AGENT MODEL; MULTIAGENT ARCHITECTURE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL CONSTRAINTS; TRANSPORTATION COST; TRANSPORTATION NETWORK;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 68649126320     PISSN: 17515858     EISSN: 17515866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJIIDS.2009.027691     Document Type: Article

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