Title
Automatic extraction of business rules to improve quality in planning and consolidation in transport logistics based on multi-agent clustering
Abstract
The article describes multi-agent engine for data clustering and IF-THEN rules generation and their application to transportation logistics. The developed engine can be used for investigating customer source data, pattern discovery in batch or in real time mode and ongoing forecasting and consolidation of orders and in other cases. Engine basic architecture fits well for both batch and real time clustering. The example of data clustering and generation of IF-THEN rules for one of UK logistics operators is considered. It is shown how the extracted rules were applied to automatic schedule generation and how as a result the quality of schedules was improved. The article also describes an approach, which allows getting orders consolidation from extracted rules. Algorithm of rule search and the obtained results analysis are other points mentioned.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-3-540-72839-9_11
AIS-ADM
Keywords
Field
DocType
multi-agent engine,if-then rule,real time clustering,uk logistics operator,customer source data,automatic extraction,developed engine,engine basic architecture,multi-agent clustering,orders consolidation,transport logistics,business rule,if-then rules generation,automatic schedule generation,logistics,business rules,real time,data clustering,data mining,resource allocation
Data mining,Architecture,Computer science,Source data,Schedule,Multi-agent planning,Operator (computer programming),Consolidation (soil),Cluster analysis,Business rule
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
4476
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Igor Minakov1111.71
George Rzevski26912.37
Petr Skobelev311824.61
Simon Volman4111.71