[ACM Press the fourth international joint conference - The Netherlands (2005.07.25-2005.07.29)] Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - AAMAS '05 - An adaptive solution to dynamic transport optimization

✍ Scribed by Dorer, Klaus; Calisti, Monique

• Book ID: 121466729
• Publisher: ACM Press
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 737 KB
• Category: Article
• ISBN-13: 9781595930934
• DOI: 10.1145/1082473.1082803

✦ Synopsis

This paper describes LS/ATN, Living Systems R Adaptive Transportation Networks, an agent-based solution we have developed to solve transportation problems in the charter business logistics. LS/ATN provides automatic optimization and execution capabilities that extend the existing planning systems accordingly. To describe our solution and analyse its performance, we report on a real case scenario in which transportation requests of a big logistics provider were optimized. Besides describing the agent approach and the LS/ATN features we stress the necessity to integrate such agent system into a real-world IT architecture. Finally, we show that our adaptive solution produces significantly better results in real case scenarios than what achieved with manual optimization of professional dispatchers.