Research Of Port Enterprise Scheduling System Based On Multi-Agent

Since the reform and opening up, port construction played a great role in promoting economic development,China's water transport industry is flourish. With the continuous development of the global economy, China's trade with other countries continue to increase, the port become an important gateway to China's foreign trade。It is an ensurance to make the national economy develop stabely. Ship scheduling system is the center of the modern port operations, directly related to the efficiency and throughput of port enterprises. Therefore, accelerating feedback and improving the coordination, processing, real-time command and correctness of the scheduling play an important role on the overall production resources of port Configuration and optimization of production targets.The paper according to the actual production scheduling of the Guangzhou Port Group, analyzes the problems exists in the port operation business, combined with Multi-Agent theory's collaborative, self and other characteristics. In order to improve the production scheduling to of the port efficiency, the article construct the port Scheduling System framework based on the Multi-Agent.Firstly, the article analyzes and summarizes the existing characteristics of the port operation business to clear the function and the problems to be solved of scheduling system; Second, with the port operation business, we analyze the problems'reasons and propose the optimal scheduling process. Third, based on the theory of Multi-Agent Systems, we extract Agent mode from the optimization process, such as:forecasting Agent, Ship Scheduling Agent, machinery Agent and so on. In this paper we descript the functions and Agent Coordinations of each Agent in the system in detail; Finally, we construct a Multi-Agent-based scheduling system framework for the port, through the mechanism of UML,we also describe the communication means of the scheduling model,and the technical implementation of the system were discussed.Introducing Multi-Agent theory to the port dispatch system, has practical significance not only in achieving real-time and efficient management but also in improving operation efficiency in the port enterprises. The purpose of this study is to put the basic ideas forward on building a port Muli-Agent scheduling system.