Container terminal logistics systems collaborative scheduling based on multi-agent systems

Aiming at the problem of Container Terminal Logistics System(CTLS) collaborative scheduling,the concept of Container Terminal Integrated Service Systems(CTISS) was proposed,which was supposed to obtain a new methodology for CTLS collaborative scheduling.Under the framework of CTISS,the loading and unloading,transportation,stacking,collection and distribution in CTLS were considered as a kind of generalized computation,and then the physical entity resource network and the control decision-making information network were integrated into the modeling and optimization architecture using Harvard architecture and Agent-based computing.Thus a new sort of agile,efficient and robust CTLS collaborative scheduling solution was obtained.An operational case for berth allocation,quay crane scheduling and yard trailer dispatching was simulated and analyzed to validate the feasibility and creditability of the methodology.