AAMAS Conference 2011 Conference Paper
Agent-Based Container Terminal Optimisation
- Stephen Cranefield
- Roger Jarquin
- Guannan Li
- Brent Martin
- Rainer Unland
- Hanno-Felix Wagner
- Michael Winikoff
- Thomas Young
Container terminals play a critical role in international shipping and are under pressure to cope with increasing container traffic. The problem of managing container terminals effectively has a number of characteristics that suggest the use of agent technology would be beneficial. This paper describes a joint industry-university project which has explored the applicability of agent technology to the domain of container terminal management.