Development of Smart Context-Aware Services for Cargo Transportation: An Operational Management Approach

425 Pages·2022·11.22 MB·English

by  Dalė Dzemydienė, Aurelija Burinskienė, Kristina Čižiūnienė, Arūnas Miliauskas

International Series in
Operations Research & Management Science
Dalė Dzemydienė
Aurelija Burinskienė
Kristina Čižiūnienė
Arūnas Miliauskas
Development
of Smart
Context-Aware
Services for Cargo
Transportation
An Operational Management Approach
International Series in Operations Research &
Management Science
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Development of Smart
Context-Aware Services
for Cargo Transportation
An Operational Management Approach
DalėDzemydienė AurelijaBurinskienė
DepartmentofBusinessTechnologies DepartmentofBusinessTechnologies
andEntrepreneurship, andEntrepreneurship,
FacultyofBusinessManagement FacultyofBusinessManagement
VilniusGediminasTechnicalUniversity VilniusGediminasTechnicalUniversity
Vilnius,Lithuania Vilnius,Lithuania
KristinaČižiūnienė ArūnasMiliauskas
LogisticsandTransport DepartmentofBusinessTechnologies
ManagementDepartment, andEntrepreneurship,
FacultyofTransportEngineering FacultyofBusinessManagement
VilniusGediminasTechnicalUniversity VilniusGediminasTechnicalUniversity
Vilnius,Lithuania Vilnius,Lithuania
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Preface
The universe of discourse of this research is concerned with the development of
intelligent systems for contemporary management processes of transportation of
goods. To understand how context recognition systems can be integrated into
intelligenttransportmanagementsystemsandoperateinfreighttransportprocesses,
it is important to understand and evaluate the factors influencing the interaction of
transportprocesses.Theaimofthisresearchistodevelopasystemfortheprovision
ofintelligentservicesfortheoperationalmanagementoffreighttransportation.The
objectives to achieve this aim concerns the development of a multi-layered meth-
odology that would allow describing complex transportation processes, contextual
information and their management in a computer-based system. Such an approach
requires the analysis of a fairly wide range of knowledge-based methods and
technologies. The methodology describes the stages of analysis and application of
methodsandICT.Thereviewoftoolsandmethodsisbasedoncomparativeanalysis
techniques,othermethodsandsystemarchitecturecomponentsaredevelopedorig-
inallybytheauthors.Theauthorsexaminequiteimportantareasforthedevelopment
ofsuchsystems,whichinclude:
(cid:129) Ananalysisofthecontextconceptandrepresentationalstructurethatisimportant
infreighttransportmanagementprocesses;
(cid:129) Ananalysisofforwardingsectoractivities;
(cid:129) Theidentificationofvariablesthatwillformtheinformationbaserequiredforthe
delivery of goods, taking into account the entire cycle of freight transportation
andlogistics;
(cid:129) The assessment of requirements for describing the algorithms, which ensure
contextrecognitionserviceengineering
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The topics are concerned in the monograph in order of using appropriate ICT
infrastructure for the analysis of the observed data, for right designing of system’s
componentsonthebasisoftheanalysisoftheliteraturesources:
(cid:129) Theevaluationandselectionofthesetsofwirelesscommunicationnetworktools.
(cid:129) Theclassificationofservicesandprioritiesforprovision.
The integration of all necessary components according to the specifics of the
context-awareservicesisanalysed.
After accumulating and comparing the necessary methods in the course of
research:
(cid:129) The architecture of the intelligent service delivery system is designed, which
integratescontext-awareservicesthathelpincreasetheefficiencyofthetransport
system.
(cid:129) Evaluate the cargo delivery management process: risks, solutions, and
optimization.
(cid:129) Thechosenmethodsofdatacollection,aggregation,anddisseminationandtheir
applicationareevaluatedbycontinuingtheprototypeofthedevelopedsimulation
system.
(cid:129) Transport infrastructure is described by semantic models and its capabilities are
evaluatedbymeansofsimulationmodelling.
(cid:129) Theneedforinformationsystemsinfreighttransportisidentifiedandassessed.
(cid:129) Theroad,rail,andwatertransportsectorsandtheinformationsystemsappliedin
themintransportandforwardingactivitiesareanalysed.
(cid:129) Intermodalandmultimodaltransportarevalued.
Multi-criteriadecisionsupportmethodsareintegratedintotheintelligentservice
infrastructuretoensuresustainablemultimodalfreighttransportationmanagement.
This monographis written by authors:Dalė Dzemydienė, AurelijaBurinskienė,
Kristina Čižiūnienė, and Arūnas Miliauskas. Short description of activities of
authorsisprovided.
Dalė Dzemydienė (Švanytė) is the leading professor and the chief research
fellow working at the Department of Business Technologies and Entrepreneurship
of the Faculty of Business Management of the Vilnius Gediminas Technical Uni-
versityandattheInstituteofDataScienceandDigitalTechnologiesoftheFacultyof
Mathematics and Informatics of the Vilnius University (Lithuania). She holds a
diploma with the honor of applied mathematics in the specialization of software
engineeringin1980,achievedPhDofmathematics—informaticssciencesin1995,a
diploma of habilitation doctor procedure in the field of social sciences of manage-
mentandadministrationin2004.Sheholdstheacademicrankofaprofessorgained
in 2009. She published more than 300 research articles, 3 manual books, and
3monographswithco-authors.SheistheheadoftheLegalInformaticsSectionof
LithuanianComputerSociety(LIKS),amemberoftheLIKSBoard,amemberofthe
EuropeanCoordinatingCommitteeforArtificialIntelligence(ECCAI),andaBoard
memberoftheLithuanianOperationResearchAssociation(LITORS)andamember
ofEuropeanOperationalResearchSociety(EURO).SheisamemberoftheEditorial
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boards of International Scientific Journals: Technological and Economical Devel-
opment of Economy (2008–2017); Strategic Property Management; Electronic
Security and Digital Forensics. She is leading in scientific research work at the
programmeofSocialTechnologyandteaching atCurriculumofBachelor,Master,
and Doctoral study programmes. She was a supervisor of doctoral studies and the
researchprogrammesofSocialTechnology,Modelling,andDevelopmentofSocial
andTechnologicalSystems.ShewasthesupervisorofdoctoralstudiesofGediminas
Gricius(Informaticssciences),MindaugasKurmis(TechnologicalInformaticsEngi-
neering sciences), Giedrius Romeika (Social Management and Administration sci-
ences),DariusDrungilas(InformaticsEngineeringsciences),RamūnasDzindzalieta
(Informatics Engineering sciences), Ramutė Naujikienė (Social Management and
Administration sciences), and others. She is an organizer of international scientific
conferencesinthefieldofdatabasesandinformationsystems.Shewasthemember
of Programme Committees of International Baltic Conferences of DB and IS,
ALTA’2022, 13th Intern. Conf. “Business and Management 2022”, ADBIS,
CIGSUD’2006, coordinator of International Doctoral Consortiums, etc. She is a
member of Editorial Boards of International Scientific Journals: “Technological
EconomicalDevelopmentofEconomy”(2008–2017);“StrategicPropertyManage-
ment”; “Electronic Security and Digital Forensics”; “Applied Computer Systems”.
Her research interests include artificial intelligence methods, decision support sys-
tems,evaluationofsustainabledevelopmentprocesses,andsmartservices.
AurelijaBurinskienėisachiefresearcherattheInstituteofDynamicManage-
mentoftheVilniusGediminasTechnicalUniversityandanassociateprofessoratthe
Department of Business Technology and Entrepreneurship. She has 12 years of
experienceasalogisticsprojectmanager.Sheisthemanagerofthescientificproject
“Smart context-aware services for operational freight transport management”
(2020–2023) and participant in the DIGINNO-digitization project of land freight
transport. She was a Board member of the international cooperation project COST
CA15105from2018.
SheistheheadofateamofresearchersoftheFacultyofBusinessManagement
engaged in distribution and logistics research since 2016. She has published over
70publicationsinscientificjournalsandbooks.Recentlyshepublishedascientific
study“Determiningthetrade-offsofinventorymanagementapproachesintheface
ofCOVID-19”.Shehas10yearsofexperienceinlecturing(teachingsuchcoursesas
logistics, warehouse, and inventory management, e-logistics, and logistics process
optimization systems). She is a member of the editorial board of the Logistics
Scientific Conference and the editorial board of a periodic international journal
published abroad. She made a presentation at the MIM 2019 conference in Berlin,
leading the part “Intelligent Methods and Systems Supporting Supply Chain Deci-
sion Making—II”. The researcher has also been a member of committee of the
BusinessLogisticsstudyprogramme.
Kristina Čižiūnienė is an associate professor working at the Department of
Logistics and Transport Management, Faculty of Transport Engineering, Vilnius
GediminasTechnicalUniversity.Shedefendedherdoctoraldissertationandholda
doctoraldegreediplomainSocialSciencesandEconomics.Sheholdsanexcellent
track record as an expert in lecturing and training specialists in logistics, service
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logistics, transport, human resource management, organization of industrial prac-
tices, and marketing in logistics. She was a team member and a senior expert in
project“Promotinginnovativebusinessestablishment”(No.VP2-1.4-ŪM-05-V-01-
006). She gained solid knowledge and experience in preparing and developing
teaching materials for the study programmes and modules taught at the Faculty of
Transport Engineering. In 2019, she was the executor of the outsourced project at
Lithuanian Railways. As a senior expert of the project, she ensured the planning,
coordination,delegationoffunctions,andperformancemonitoring;assistedstudents
throughouteventsandconsultations,andcooperatedwithbusinesspartners.Kristina
Čižiūnienė was a manager of the project “ATVERK” organized by Lithuanian
EngineeringIndustryAssociationLINPRA.Thetraining“Non-formaldevelopment
ofentrepreneurshipbasedonDemolmodel”washeldinthecourseoftheprojectin
Lithuania and Finland. Kristina Čižiūnienė is an author and co-author of over
80scientificpublications,severalmonographsandhandbooks.Sheisamemberof
theEditorial boardofJournalSpecialissueinLogisticsthatisapartofthesection
“MaritimeandTransportLogistics”.
ArūnasMiliauskasisaspecialistengineerworking attheDepartment ofBusi-
ness Technology and Entrepreneurship of the Faculty of Business Management of
theVilniusGediminasTechnicalUniversity,andanassistantresearchfellowatthe
Institute of Data Science and Digital Technologies of the Faculty of Mathematics
andInformaticsoftheVilniusUniversity(Lithuania).Heearnedamaster’sdegreein
Informatics at Vilnius University. He published about 15 scientific articles. His
researchinterestsincludeartificialintelligencemethods andsmartservicedevelop-
mentplatforms.
Vilnius,Lithuania DalėDzemydienė
AurelijaBurinskienė
KristinaČižiūnienė
ArūnasMiliauskas
Author Contributions
ThePrefaceiswrittenbyDalėDzemydienė,theChap.1isdevotedforintroduction
into the research area and is delivered by Kristina Čižiūnienė and Aurelija
Burinskienė;the issues of development of contextrecognition methods, communi-
cationinfrastructure,andalgorithmsofsmartservicedeliverysystemarepresented
by Dalė Dzemydienė (Chaps. 2–4); the analysis of cargo delivery management
process and context-aware services support means is described by Aurelija
Burinskienė (Chaps. 5–6, 8–12); the issues of context service engineering for
automatedweb-basedfreightbrokerageisofferedbyArūnasMiliauskas(Chap.7);
the description of information technology used in various transport sectors, the
analysisof intermodal transport and multimodal transport are provided by Kristina
Čižiūnienė (Chaps. 13–18); the representation of decision support for multimodal
transportation of cargo in smart service delivery system is presented by Dalė
Dzemydienė (Chap. 19). The glossary of terminology and list of abbreviations is
providedbyallauthorsattheendofthemonograph.
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