Title :
Route selecting in the light of the theory of multimode transportation based on multi-agent
Author :
Zeng, Chuan-Hua ; Li, Qing-Song
Author_Institution :
Intelligent Control Dev. Center, Southwest Jiaotong Univ., Chengdu, China
Abstract :
In the context of market economy, various conflicts in freightage market surface as below: the conflict of competition and cooperation among transportation corporations, the conflict of supply and demand between consignors and transportation corporations, and the conflict of transport costs and service level, etc. Thus the theory of multimode transportation based on multi-agent is put forward to reconcile those conflicts in this paper, and in the light of the theory of multimode transportation based on multi-agent the problem of selecting the best route with the highest comprehension serving level showed by transport cost and transport time etc. is particularly elaborated here.
Keywords :
multi-agent systems; supply and demand; transportation; freightage market; market economy; multi-agent transportation; multimode transportation; route selecting; supply and demand; transportation corporations; Context-aware services; Cost function; Dynamic programming; Educational institutions; Forward contracts; Information technology; Intelligent control; Pipelines; Rail transportation; Roads;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2004 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8566-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1400973