Distributed Artificial Intelligence in Logistics, Supply Chains, Transportation, and Transport Systems

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 2847

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Department of Software Engineering and Computer Science, Blekinge Institute of Technology Karlshamn, 371 79 Karlskrona, Sweden
Interests: artificial intelligence; intelligent logistics; distributed planning; simulation; container terminal operations

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Dear Colleagues,

New paradigm shifts in managing transport systems have been accelerated because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this book, several papers are presented in which various facets of transportation are studied from the research area of Artificial Intelligence. Applied Artificial Intelligence offers many tantalizing opportunities for society to solve the ever-increasing challenges associated with rising global trade and increasing complexities characterizing many of today's modern transportation systems. The papers to be published are namely from the research area of Artificial Intelligence, such as Agent Based or Multi Agent Based Systems, Machine Learning, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks, and Smart Decision making. Types of problems that are found within the transportation domain are, for example, knowledge representation, learning, motion and manipulation, natural language processing, perception, planning, and social intelligence.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

  • Artificial Intelligence, such as: Agent Based or Multi Agent Based Systems, Machine Learning, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks, and Smart Decision making
  • knowledge representation, learning, motion and manipulation, natural language processing, perception, planning, and social intelligence
  • Transportations systems, transport, logistics, supply chains, e-commerce, physical distribution

Dr. Lawrence E. Henesey
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Keywords

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Agent Based or Multi Agent Based Systems
  • machine learning
  • genetic algorithms
  • knowledge representation
  • natural language processing
  • planning and social intelligence
  • transportation systems, transport
  • logistics, supply chains
  • e-commerce
  • physical distribution

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Machine Learning-Based Model Predictive Control for Collaborative Production Planning Problem with Unknown Information
by Yiyang Chen, Yingwei Zhou and Yueyuan Zhang
Electronics 2021, 10(15), 1818; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10151818 - 29 Jul 2021
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Abstract
In industrial production planning problems, the accuracy of the accessible market information has the highest priority, as it is directly associated with the reliability of decisions and affects the efficiency and effectiveness of manufacturing. However, during a collaborative task, certain private information regarding [...] Read more.
In industrial production planning problems, the accuracy of the accessible market information has the highest priority, as it is directly associated with the reliability of decisions and affects the efficiency and effectiveness of manufacturing. However, during a collaborative task, certain private information regarding the participants might be unknown to the regulator, and the production planning decisions thus become biased or even inaccurate due to the lack of full information. To improve the production performance in this specific case, this paper combines the techniques of machine learning and model predictive control (MPC) to create a comprehensive algorithm with low complexity. We collect the historical data of the decision-making process while the participants make their individual decisions with a certain degree of bias and analyze the collected data using machine learning to estimate the unknown parameter values by solving a regression problem. Based on an accurate estimate, MPC helps the regulator to make optimal decisions, maximizing the overall net profit of a given collaborative task over a future time period. A simulation-based case study is conducted to validate the performance of the proposed algorithm in terms of estimation accuracy. Comparisons with individual and pure MPC decisions are also made to verify its advantages in terms of increasing profit. Full article
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