DELIVER
Distributed Coordination for Continuous Planning
Almende - LIACS - TU Dortmund - DEAL Services - RIF - Trigion - ITC
Project website: http://deliver.almende.com
In this project, a novel approach towards logistic planning is developed. We call this approach continuous planning, as opposed to traditional (batch-oriented, a priori) planning.
The participation of many industrial partners in the project underlines the technical innovation of the project - the continuous planning approach is seen by many as a promising way to complement traditional planning methods, in particular for planning on the day-of-delivery. The interest from industry shows that the project results will have a strong economical impact if proven successful.
Aim
The aim of the Deliver project is to realize a planning system based on this novel approach. Such a system can be characterized as follows:
| Traditional Planning System | Continuous Planning System (Deliver) |
| The planning system runs in batch, computing a solution to a problem which must be entirely known in advance. | The planning system runs continuously while being responsive to real world events and requests, computing a solution to a dynamically unfolding problem. |
| A solution from the planning system is global and optimal. | The planning system always has one solution, which is relatively stable at a global level; optimality is only relatively important. |
| The planning system focuses on the computation and communication of the solution only. | The planning system focuses on continuous logistics support; it is able to take initiatives to communicate with customers (escalation, delegation). |
Partners
The project is a EUREKA project, with the following partners involved:
- Almende: www.almende.com
- LIACS: www.liacs.nl
- TU Dortmund: www.cs.uni-dortmund.de
- DEAL Services: www.dealservices.nl
- RIF: www.rif-ev.de
- Trigion: www.trigion.nl
- ITC: www.itcnet.de
