Agent based simulation architecture for evaluating operational policies in transshipping containers
| Document type: | Conference Papers |
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| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
| Author(s): | Lawrence Henesey, Paul Davidsson, Jan A. Persson |
| Title: | Agent based simulation architecture for evaluating operational policies in transshipping containers |
| Journal: | AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS |
| Conference name: | 4th German Conference on Multiagent Systems Technologies Erfurt, GERMANY, SEP 19-20, 2006 |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Volume: | 18 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pagination: | 220-238 |
| ISSN: | 1387-2532 |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| URI/DOI: | 10.1007/s10458-008-9044-y |
| ISI number: | 000262551800002 |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Computing (Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation) School of Computing S-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.bth.se/com |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | An agent based simulator for evaluating operational policies in the transshipment of containers in a container terminal is described. The simulation tool, called SimPort, is a decentralized approach to simulating managers and entities in a container terminal. Real data from two container terminals are used as input for evaluating eight transshipment policies. The policies concern the sequencing of ships, berth allocation, and stacking rule. They are evaluated with respect to a number of aspects, such as, turn-around time for ships and traveled distance of straddle carriers. The simulation results indicate that a good choice in yard stacking and berthing position policies can lead to faster ship turn-around times. For instance, in the terminal studied the Overall-Time-Shortening policy offers fast turn-around times when combined with a Shortest-Job-First sequencing of arriving ships. |
| Subject: | Software Engineering\General |
| Keywords: | Agent-based simulation, Container terminal management, Policy evaluation |
