Development of an intelligent management clerk in a logistic domain

Author

König, Rainer ; Cord, Stephan ; Moller, Klaus

Author_Institution

Dept. Tech. Expert Syst. & robotRR, Forschungszentrum Inf., Karlsruhe, Germany

fYear

1994

fDate

31 Aug-2 Sep 1994

Firstpage

277

Lastpage

280

Abstract

This paper describes the development and the architecture of an intelligent assistant system which supports a management clerk in solving route planning problems. The intelligent management clerk (IMC) cooperates with a commercial route planning system which produces optimum routes for a given scheduling problem using standard heuristic algorithms. While processing the IMC adapts its knowledge to the knowledge of the end user of the system. The development of the IMC uses various methods of artificial intelligence. The design of the whole system is based on object-oriented technologies. The decisions of the IMC are taken using a rule based system

Keywords

decision support systems; goods distribution; knowledge based systems; object-oriented methods; scheduling; commercial route planning system; intelligent assistant system; intelligent management clerk; logistic; object-oriented technologies; optimum routes; rule based system; scheduling problem; Artificial intelligence; Costs; Expert systems; Heuristic algorithms; Intelligent robots; Intelligent systems; Logistics; Proposals; Scheduling algorithm; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicle Navigation and Information Systems Conference, 1994. Proceedings., 1994

Conference_Location

Yokohama

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2105-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VNIS.1994.396827

Filename

396827