Petrol delivery management with BPsim.DSS

Author

Konstantin, Aksyonov ; Eugene, Bykov ; Olga, Aksyonova

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ural Fed. Univ., Ekaterinburg, Russia

fYear

2014

fDate

28-30 July 2014

Firstpage

7628

Lastpage

7632

Abstract

The paper describes deployment experience of a decision support system for planning fuel supplies within a network of gas stations, which is based on simulation, multi-agent and expert modeling. Authors focus on various methods used in decision support system BPsim.DSS. Mainly the system is used by logistical management and planning departments. The system implement such features as forecasting next day fuel sales, searching for effective fuel supply plan, planning trips for each fuel tanker. Simulation model estimates fuel sales. Planning is implemented in BPsim.MSN on the basis of logical output visual machine, based on UML diagrams and T-SQL language scripts. Testing results prove effectiveness of decisions: sales volume can be increased by optimizing usage of fuel tankers.

Keywords

SQL; Unified Modeling Language; decision support systems; fuel systems; logistics; multi-agent systems; petroleum industry; process planning; production engineering computing; BPsim.DSS; T-SQL language scripts; UML diagrams; decision support system; effective fuel supply planning; expert modeling; fuel sale estimation simulation model; fuel supply planning; fuel tankers; gas station network; logical output visual machine; logistical management; multiagent system; next day fuel sale forecasting; petrol delivery management; planning departments; planning trips; Decision support systems; Fuels; Knowledge based systems; Planning; Unified modeling language; Vehicles; Agents; decision support systems; logistics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control Conference (CCC), 2014 33rd Chinese

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ChiCC.2014.6896271

Filename

6896271