Autonomous Courier and Express Services - Autonomous Coordination of competitive Participants in Courier and Express Services

自主快递和快递服务 - 快递和快递服务竞争参与者的自主协调

• 批准号: 234113158
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Otthein Herzog
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Aimpulse Intelligent Systems GmbH
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants (Transfer Project)
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2012-12-31 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/234113158?language=en
• 关键词: Autonomous; Courier; Express; Services; Coordination

The goal of the proposed transfer project is the application of agent-based autonomous logistic processes for supporting the dispatcher of competing courier and express services. It was shown within the Collaborative Research Center 637 Autonomous Cooperating Logistic Processes - A Paradigm Shift and its Limitations (CRC 637), that autonomous logistic processes have many advantages in contrast to conventional approaches especially in dynamic and complex environments. Some research concepts have been successfully applied to groupage traffic in the CRC 637 transfer project T8 Autonomous groupage traffic.The aim of the transfer project is to apply research concepts and results developed in the CRC 637 subproject B4 Knowledge Management to courier and express services in order to improve and optimize the corresponding planning and controlling processes.The focus is on the adaptation and extension of mechanisms for the cooperation of software agents that are responsible for process planning and controlling to competitive scenarios. The mechanisms for interaction, communication, and coordination have to be applicable to selfish actors, who are paid by commission fees and are trying to maximize their own profit.Moreover, individual capabilities and preferences of the actors must be considered. The goal is to optimize the efficiency of the processes as well as to maximize the profits of all participants. Some additional cooperation between the agents must be provided by using extra depots where couriers can exchange and temporarily store orders.The multiagent-based simulation framework PlaSMA will be used for the modeling and simulation of autonomous logistic processes which was also developed within the subproject B4 of the CRC 637. We will show the intended increase in efficiency by comparing agent-based autonomous processes with the current processes of the industrial partner Tiramizoo and the mostly applied manually dispatching using real-life numbers. In addition, we will demonstrate the increased flexibility and robustness of autonomous logistic processes by simulating unexpected events in realistic scenarios based on real orders that are provided by Tiramizoo.The industrial partner Aimpulse Intelligent Systems, a consulting specialist for IT and logistic processes, provides its Know-how to develop a solution that requires only feasible software investments to be integrated within the current processes of courier and express services.

拟议转移项目的目标是应用基于代理的自主物流流程，以支持相互竞争的快递和快递服务的调度员。协作研究中心637自主合作物流流程--范式转变及其局限性(CRC 637)表明，与传统方法相比，自主物流流程具有许多优势，特别是在动态和复杂的环境中。研究成果已成功应用于CRC637转移项目T8自主分组流量中，其目的是将CRC637子项目B4知识管理中的研究概念和成果应用于快递服务，以改进和优化相应的计划和控制流程，重点是将负责过程规划和控制的软件代理的协作机制适应和扩展到竞争场景。互动、沟通和协调的机制必须适用于自私的行为者，他们通过收取佣金来支付报酬，并试图最大化自己的利益。此外，还必须考虑行为者的个人能力和偏好。其目标是优化进程的效率，并使所有参与者的利润最大化。代理之间必须通过使用额外的仓库来提供一些额外的合作，在那里信使可以交换和临时存储订单。基于多代理的仿真框架等离子将用于对自主物流过程的建模和仿真，该框架也是在CRC 637的子项目B4中开发的。我们将通过将基于代理的自主流程与工业合作伙伴Tiramizoo的当前流程以及使用真实数字的主要应用的手动调度进行比较，来展示效率的预期提高。此外，我们将基于Tiramizo提供的真实订单，通过模拟现实场景中的意外事件来展示自主物流流程的更高灵活性和健壮性。工业合作伙伴APulse Intelligence Systems是一家IT和物流流程咨询专家，它提供了开发解决方案的诀窍，该解决方案只需要可行的软件投资就可以集成到当前的快递和快递服务流程中。