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Abstract
Digitalization is constantly altering company paradigms and expanding cross-border supply chain prospects. Maritime transportation plays an increasingly essential part in the global supply network. Since maritime shipping services need to exchange a huge number of papers and paperwork across numerous companies, the usage of a unified platform for inter-organisational communication and information sharing is required. To develop an integrative, adaptive, and intelligent container booking system, a multi-agent architecture is designed in this article. The proposed architecture will aid the maritime industry in establishing real-time information interchange between autonomous agents, shippers, freight forwarders, and shipping lines. The process outlined in this paper reveals how the agents communicate with one another to resolve underlying inconsistencies. With the multi-agent framework, the article also presents a container slot optimisation problem considering market segmentation, different booking periods, heterogeneous containers and port congestion scenarios. Using this model the managers can find the booking limit for each type of containers and accordingly they can accept or reject the incoming booking requests. Furthermore, a simulated case study is also provided to validate the model.
Data availability statement
The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, J. Mandal, upon reasonable request.
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Notes on contributors
Jasashwi Mandal
Jasashwi Mandal is currently pursuing her Ph.D in Department of Mathematics from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Her research interests include Maritime Shipping, Multi-objective optimisation, Shipping and Logistics, Freight revenue management, Supply Chain Management, and Operations Research. She has published papers in Computers and Industrial Engineering (Elsevier), Information Sciences (Elsevier) and Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier).
Adrijit Goswami
Prof. Adrijit Goswami received his Ph.D. degree from Jadavpur University, West Bengal, India in 1992. He is a professor at the Department of Mathematics at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. His research interests are Supply Chain Management, Inventory Control, Operations Research, Data Mining, Cryptography and Network Security. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 refereed journal papers and refereed conference papers in peer-reviewed academic journals, including the Information Sciences (Elsevier), Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier), RAIRO-Operations Research, and Knowledge and Information Systems (Springer). He has professional memberships of Life term member of Operation society of India and Life term member of ISTAM and is member of editorial board for International Journal of Fuzzy Systems and Rough Systems and International Journal of Mathematics in Operational Research (IJMOR). He is an Associate Editor of International Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics, and SADHANA, Springer.
Sushma Kumari
Sushma Kumari is Programme Director of the MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management and Programme Director, BSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management and Lecturer in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at University of Hull. Her specialism revolves around sustainable Supply chain design, management and planning, data driven decision making. She strongly believes in impactful applied interdisciplinary research. She has experience of collaborating with organisations outside of the higher education and research sectors. She is working closely with AURA team and local companies on different ERDF projects that help her to transfer scientific and technical knowledge to companies and to raise awareness and promote ‘environmental literacy’ through applied research.
Nishikant Mishra
Nishikant Mishra is a Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management at Hull University Business School, University of Hull, UK. Prior to that he worked as Director of Post Graduate Research and Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management at Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, UK. He also worked as a Director of Research at Aberystwyth Business School, Aberystwyth University, UK. In recent years, he has contributed to several research projects funded by Innovate UK, BBSRC, EPSRC, Rural development plan for Wales, GCRF. He has published about 50 papers in leading international journals. He is also acting as a reviewer of leading international journals.