@article{thurston02a,
  author =	 {Tom Thurston and Huosheng Hu},
  title =	 {Distributed Agent Architecture for Port Automation},
  journal =	 {Computer Software and Applications Conference,
                  Annual International},
  volume =	 0,
  issn =	 {0730-3157},
  year =	 2002,
  pages =	 81,
  doi =		 {10.1109/CMPSAC.2002.1044537},
  publisher =	 {{IEEE} Computer Society},
  address =	 {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
  abstract =	 {In the near future, container ports will no longer
                  be able to expand into the surrounding land and will
                  thus be unable to meet the storage requirements due
                  to the boom in world trade. A solution to this
                  problem is to increase the container throughput of
                  the port by reducing the amount of time necessary to
                  load and unload a ship. This paper presents
                  distributed agent architecture to achieve this
                  task. Under such architecture, an intelligent
                  planning algorithm is continuously optimised by the
                  dynamic and co-operative rescheduling of yard
                  resources such as quay cranes and container
                  vehicles.},
  url = 	 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/thurston02a.pdf},
  cluster = 	 {4547314021933846990},
}