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Setting Cooperative Relations Among Terminals at Seaports Using a Multi-Agent System
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Abstract(s)
Seaports are gateways between the over sea and
the hinterland commerce, where different cargo types are
handled at dedicated terminals. Currently, seaports are facing
traffic congestion leading to a decrease in its performance. Prior
to increase the existing infrastructures in terms of transport
capacity between the seaport and the hinterland it is important
to improve cooperation among terminals. A multi-agent system
to guarantee cooperation among terminals within a seaport is
proposed in this paper. A control agent is assigned to each
terminal and is responsible for the cargo assignment to the
transport capacity at its disposal such that cargo arrives on
time at the agreed location. Control agents solve in parallel an
optimization problem formulated in accordance to the Model
Predictive Control (MPC) strategy. Cooperation among control
agents is established using a coordinator agent that updates
the transport capacity assigned to each control agent based
on the marginal costs provided by all control agents. The
proposed framework does not require the exchange of private
information and assumes an altruist behavior for all control
agents. The proposed approach can perform similarly to a
central approach. The framework performance is illustrated
with simulation studies considering a seaport composed of 3
container terminals
Description
Trabalho apresentado em 16th IEEE Conference of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC'13), 2013, Haia, Holanda