Prototyping freight trains traffic management using multi-agent systems

Proceedings - 1999 International Conference on Information Intelligence and Systems, ICIIS 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 646-653

  Cuppari, Alessio ^a   Guida, Pier Luigi ^a   Martelli, Maurizio ^b   Mascardi, Viviana ^b   Zini, Floriano ^b  

^a Gruppo FS SpA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FREIGHT CARS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

CONSTRAINT PROGRAMMING; FREIGHT TRAINS; NEW APPROACHES; PROBLEM-BASED; RAILWAY LINE; RAILWAY TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; REAL CASE; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84902667874     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIIS.1999.810360     Document Type: Conference Paper

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