The aim of this investigation is to test and verify a hypothesis concerning policies for berth allocation to ships in a container terminal. The chosen domain is a rich research area where simulation could be used. Because of the high amount of variables involved and demand for optimal usage of available resources management of a container terminal is a great challenge.
Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 Purpose and hypothesis
2 Delimitation and the target auditory
2.1 Target auditory
2.2 Delimitations
2.2.1 The algorithms
2.2.2 The simulation software
3 Container Terminals
3.1 Features of the business domain and objectives of container terminals
3.1.1 The management
3.1.2 Features of the business domain
3.2 Berth allocation
3.3 Working a ship
3.4 A container’s life in a container terminal
4 Method
4.1 The simulation platform
4.2 The policies
4.2.1 Berth and ship modeling
4.2.2 Calculations
4.2.3 The output
5 The simulation software in the domain of container terminal management
5.1 Applications of simulators
5.1.1 A closer look at the functionality of a simulator
5.1.2 GUI/Animation
5.2 The container terminal simulator developed and used for experiments
5.2.1 Configuration
5.3 Manager System
6 The experiments
6.1.1 Description of the experiments
6.1.2 Results of the experiment
7 Conclusion
8 Reflections
9 Future work
9.1 Improvements of the CT simulator and the (Management system)
9.2 Education
9.2.1 Educational establishments
9.2.2 Industry
9.3 Knowledge Elicitation Validation
9.4 Simulator based knowledge elicitation
9.5 Automatically generated policies
10 Acknowledgements
Bibliography
11 Appendix A. The dictionary
12 Appendix B. The class diagrams
Author: Anatoly Chervyakov
Source: Blekinge Institute of Technology
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