Title
MAGENTA technology case studies of magenta i-scheduler for road transportation
Abstract
The paper describes functionality of Magenta Multi-Agent Logistics i-Scheduler Engine presented on AAMAS 2006 conferences and gives examples of its application in business domain. The i-Scheduler Engine was designed to be scalable without risk of combinatorial explosion, in order to handle large transportation networks as a whole. The multi-agent architecture combined with semantic network allows very granular approach for every business entity of transportation network (client, order, cargo, truck, driver, etc) and balancing of their conflicting interests. The i-Scheduler considers individual constraints and, interestingly, specific preferences of customers, drivers, trucks, cargoes, etc. This results in a unique ability to combine inbound and outbound deliveries, different fleets or private networks, driving more value from finding effective backhauls and consolidations. The paper covers the history of development, architecture and current functionality of the engine and provides a set of case studies in different transportation networks, which outline the most serious challenges Magenta overcame in each case.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1145/1329125.1329455
AAMAS
Keywords
Field
DocType
road transportation,magenta multi-agent logistics i-scheduler,business domain,case study,magenta i-scheduler,i-scheduler engine,transportation network,magenta technology case study,different transportation network,current functionality,large transportation network,business entity,magenta overcame,vehicle routing problem,semantic network,ontology,dynamic routing,multi agent systems,management,performance,resource allocation,describing function,design,semantic networks,algorithms,multi agent system
Truck,Flow network,Vehicle routing problem,Simulation,Computer science,Operations research,Multi-agent system,Business domain,Combinatorial explosion,Scalability,Private network,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.82
5
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Petr Skobelev111824.61
Andrey Glaschenko2152.30
Ilya Grachev390.82
Sergey Inozemtsev4141.79