Application Of Agent Technology In Container Terminal Management System

Container transportation which is efficiency, convenience, security features, has become an important modernized transport form. Along with China's economic development, the continuous expansion of foreign trade exchange and the extensive application of transport container terminals, traditional container terminal management can no longer meet the increasing demand of processing. Therefore global container terminal has become all kinds of cutting-edge information technology and advanced management methods of application stage. As the top first container volume in the world, China has the same desire of information technology. How to design and implementation of efficient, automated, intelligent Container Terminal Management System has become the designers and operators are required to solve problems. The development and application of agent technology provides a new solution for the container terminal management control and intelligent management system.Using agent and computer technology, this paper studied the Container Terminal Management System. The study mainly contained: Starting at the agent basic theory, the Container Terminal Management System and related business processes, understanding the character and structure of agent, it was found that the starting point of agent applying Container Terminal Management System. It was found that between the Container Terminal Management System subsystems there were some communication problems. The Information Processing Agent model was proposed, and its working principle was explained. At the last the analysis and explanation to each module was carried out. Using the Multi-agent System technology, a MAS model was established for the Container Terminal Management System. Researching on the structural characteristics and the function of each agent, it was explained that the coordination between agents. Studying the characteristics and advantages of Agent-Oriented Programming, using of AOP technology and according to already established model, Information Processing Agent which was the Container Terminal Management System message handling part, was developed. The operating results were compared and analyzed at the end of this paper.The results indicate that in the Container Terminal Management System, using agent technology to handle communications between its subsystems has advantages of message processing speeding and little impact on the whole system after message changed. It is an effective way for the container terminal to achieve intelligent, efficient management.