A distributed agent system for port planning and scheduling

Advanced Engineering Informatics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 403-412

  Yin, Xiao Feng ^a   Khoo, Li Pheng ^a   Chen, Chun Hsien ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Berth allocation; Port planning; Port scheduling; Shuttle allocation; Software agents; Yard storage allocation

Indexed keywords

BERTH ALLOCATION; CONTAINER YARD; CONTROL AGENT; DISTRIBUTED AGENTS; DYNAMIC SCHEDULERS; PORT PLANNING; PORT SCHEDULING; SHUTTLE ALLOCATION;

SCHEDULING; SOFTWARE AGENTS; TRANSFER CASES (VEHICLES);

PORTS AND HARBORS;

EID: 79960163938     PISSN: 14740346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2010.10.004     Document Type: Article

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