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Development of a Distributed Simulation Model for Container Terminal Operational Management

Rajiv Sharma

Abstract


In the shipping port sector, container traffic and its distribution are dynamic, complicated, and highly non-linear; and hence are complex to manage. To efficiently function, and to provide strategic support for the increasing traffic, the ports must either expand infrastructural facilities or improve efficiency of existing operations. In aiming to explore the options through which ports can improve efficiency, this note presents a container terminal simulation model and discusses components architecture that can be implemented with any object oriented language/Java. The note aims to develop a model that can become a helping tool in the existing port decision support systems. Finally, we present the object oriented software design using UML with a case study.


Keywords


Container terminal, discrete event simulation, distributed simulation, java, logistic information system, object oriented modeling, UML.

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