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Abstract
Danish as well as international corporations increasingly notice that they
are operating in dynamical environments, wherein high demands to flexibility and reorganization capabilities are set. Demands, which are initialized partly coursed by an increasing competition, resulting from a still
faster evolution of technology and varying demands from customers as
well as the internal distribution of work.
The Odense Steel Shipyard (OSS) is one of the companies facing this tendency by their logistic problem, concerning transportation of large ship
blocks locally at the shipyard. OSS is taking part in a consortium, with
other leading companies and research institutes in Denmark; The DECIDE
project. The objective of DECIDE is to investigate the Multi-Agent technology and emulation.
Over the past decades the abstraction level of software engineering have
progressed in order to model complex and large-scale problem domains,
wherein human actors today play an important role.
This thesis explores how to adapt multi-agent technology to solve the logistic planning at OSS. Two Multi-Agent Systems(MAS) have been designed
in the DECAF and Cougaar frameworks respectively, and a 3D simulation
model of the OSS domain was developed.