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APPROACH: Decentralised Rotation Planning for Container Barges

M.C. Schut, M. Kentrop, M. Leenaarts, M. Melis, I. Miller

(submission to PAIS) This paper presents the engineering and development process of a multi-agent software tool (APPROACH) that is used for decentralised rotation planning for container barges in the port of Rotterdam. For domain analysis and requirements engineering for the tool, a formal organisation dynamics modelling approach was adopted. We present the APPROACH tool demonstrating the added value of automation of rotation planning over traditional planning. The development trajectory of the tool demonstrates the benefits of the used formal modelling approach in a practical real-world setting, resulting in a concrete software tool that can be put into work in the harbour. Preliminary analysis has shown that execution times of barge rotation in the harbour decreases when the tool is used.

Keywords: Multi-Agent Systems

Citation: M.C. Schut, M. Kentrop, M. Leenaarts, M. Melis, I. Miller: APPROACH: Decentralised Rotation Planning for Container Barges. In R.López de Mántaras and L.Saitta (eds.): ECAI2004, Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2004, pp.755-759.


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ECAI-2004 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by the Universitat Politècnica de València on behalf of Asociación Española de Inteligencia Artificial (AEPIA) and Associació Catalana d'Intel-ligència Artificial (ACIA).