Title :
Multi-agent system for shipper´s truck freight collaboration
Author :
Shum, Pearl C C ; Ng, Vincent T Y
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput., Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., Hong Kong, China
Abstract :
This paper discusses how to reduce the cost of transportation of shipper and increases the utilization of the truck loading of the truck company by using the collaborative multi-agent system. We have designed an Intelligent Agent Cargo Booking Framework (IACBF) to facilitate the shipper grouping, partnership recognition and cost allocation with a multi-agent system solution. A prototype has been developed to illustrate the operations of our framework.
Keywords :
freight handling; groupware; multi-agent systems; collaborative multiagent system; cost allocation; intelligent agent cargo booking framework; partnership recognition; shipper grouping; shipper truck freight collaboration; truck company; Collaboration; Companies; Games; Optimization; Proposals; Resource management; Transportation; collaboration; multi-agent system; truck freight transportation;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD), 2011 15th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lausanne
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0386-7
DOI :
10.1109/CSCWD.2011.5960092
