Multi-site collaborative airfreight cargo packing

Author

Ng, Vincent T. Y. ; Na, Suo ; Chan, Stephen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput., Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., Hong Kong

fYear

2009

Firstpage

300

Lastpage

305

Abstract

Airfreight forwarding is becoming more important with the increase of international trade. For an international company, sometimes, it would have several branches associating with different airports in the same region. When a branch is overloaded, nearby branches of different airports can offer help and share the workload. A framework of agents has been proposed to support collaborative cargo packing for multi-sites in the same region. Besides defining a set of XML message exchange standards in the framework, a core component is the packing module which is supported by RFID tags with information encoded. This paper discusses how to apply first fit decreasing and best fit decreasing for packing airfreight cargoes and their preliminary performance.

Keywords

XML; freight handling; groupware; logistics; production engineering computing; radiofrequency identification; RFID tags; XML message exchange standards; multisite collaborative airfreight cargo packing; radiofrequency identification; transport logistic; Aircraft; Airports; Collaboration; Collaborative work; International trade; Land transportation; Packaging; RFID tags; Radiofrequency identification; XML; Airfreight cargo packing; Collaborative agent; RFID;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2009. CSCWD 2009. 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Santiago

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3534-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3535-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSCWD.2009.4968075

Filename

4968075