A MAS Approach for Port Container Terminal Management
Published 1 January 2001
Miguel Rebollo, Vicente Julián, Carlos Carrascosa, Vicente Botti
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This paper presents a system architecture which is based on the multi-agent system paradigm for solving complex problems. This architecture is applied to solve the port container terminal management problem, and specifically to solve the automatic container allocation. The multi-agent systems paradigm seems to fit this problem due to its inherent complexity. This work is part of a project for the integral management of the container terminal of an actual port.
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