Optimizing Transport Logistics Processes with Multiagent Planning and Control

✍ Scribed by Max Gath (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Vieweg
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 296
• Series: Advanced Studies Mobile Research Center Bremen
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Max Gath presents a multiagent system for the optimization of transport logistics in highly complex and dynamic domains. The described solution dynamically optimizes processes and provides a high flexibility, scalability, robustness, and adaptability to individual customer demands. The experimental evaluation points out the effectiveness and efficiency by using the example of commonly applied benchmarks as well as two case studies in groupage traffic and in courier, express, and parcel services with same-day deliveries. Both case studies were performed with leading transport companies in Germany. The results demonstrate that the multiagent-based solution satisfies domain-specific requirements and exploits high optimization potential in real-world processes.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXIII
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Dispatching Problems in Transport Logistics....Pages 15-34
Multiagent-Based Transport Planning and Control....Pages 35-78
The dispAgent Approach....Pages 79-139
Benchmark Evaluation....Pages 141-166
A Case Study: Groupage Traffic....Pages 167-199
A Case Study: Courier, Express, and Parcel Services....Pages 201-220
Conclusion and Outlook....Pages 221-228
Back Matter....Pages 229-279

✦ Subjects

Information Systems and Communication Service; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering