METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING LOGISTIC INFORMATION

• US 20110191258A1
• Filed: 01/28/2011
• Published: 08/04/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Maplebear Inc.
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Xie, Yan Qing, Ding, Hong Wei, Wang, Wei, Qiu, Minmin, Dong, Jin
• Granted Patent: US 8,682,808 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/330
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/083 Shipping

Abstract

Information of articles to be loaded is received, indicating and numbers of the articles to be loaded. A historic loading plan record is read. An item of the historic loading plan record includes at least a loading plan and an adaptive index corresponding to the loading plan. A loading plan suitable for the current transportation is generated based on the historic loading plan record and the information of articles to be loaded. The technical solution of this invention may reduce the requirements on storage and computing resources.

Claims

1. A method for processing logistic information, comprising;

receiving information of articles to be loaded, indicating items and numbers of said articles to be loaded;

reading a historic loading plan record, an entry of said historic loading plan record at least comprising a loading plan and an adaptive index corresponding to said loading plan; and

generating a loading plan suitable for current transportation based on said historic loading plan and said information of said articles to be loaded.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein generating said loading plan suitable for said current transportation based on said historic loading plan record and said information of said articles to be loaded comprises:

calculating relevance between said articles to be loaded based on said historic loading plan record;

allocating articles to be loaded that have higher relevance than a relevance threshold into a same loading set; and

including said articles to be loaded belonging to said same loading set into said loading plan suitable for said current transportation.

3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

selecting a loading plan including articles to be loaded belonging to said same loading set from said historic loading plan record; and

calculating said numbers of respective articles to be loaded included in said loading plan suitable for said current transportation based on said selected loading plan.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein said calculating of said relevance between articles to be loaded based on said historic loading plan record comprises:

calculating said relevance weighted by an adaptive index between articles to be loaded.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein said generating of said loading plan suitable for said current transportation based on said historic loading plan record and said information of articles to be loaded comprises:

calculating an approximation index between articles to be loaded and a loading plan in said historic loading plan record;

selecting a loading plan from said historic loading plan record based on said approximation index;

determining articles to be loaded included in said loading plan suitable for said current transportation based on said selected loading plan; and

calculating said numbers of respective articles to be loaded included in said loading plan suitable for said current transportation based on said selected loading plan.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein said calculating of said approximation index between said articles to be loaded and said loading plan in said historic loading plan record comprises:

calculating said approximation index weighted by an adaptive index between articles to be loaded and said loading plan in said historic loading plan record.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein said calculating of said numbers of respective articles to be loaded included in said loading plan suitable for said current transportation based on said selected loading plan comprises:

calculating said numbers of respective articles included in said loading plan suitable for said current transportation based on said historic loading plan record by solving a mathematical planning problem.

8. The method according to claim 5, wherein said calculating of said numbers of respective articles to be loaded included in said loading plan suitable for said current transportation based on said selected loading plan comprises:

calculating said numbers of respective articles included in said loading plan suitable for said current transportation based on said historic loading plan record with an artificial neural network.

9. The method according to claim 5, wherein said calculating of said numbers of respective articles to be loaded included in said loading plan suitable for said current transportation based on said selected loading plan comprises:

calculating said numbers of respective articles included in said loading plan suitable for said current transportation based on said historic loading plan record with a statistical method.

10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an adaptive index for said loading plan suitable for said current transportation; and

recording said loading plan suitable for said current transportation and said corresponding adaptive index in said historic loading plan record.

11. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

receiving modification to said loading plan suitable for said current transportation, to obtain a modified loading plan suitable for said current transportation;

receiving an adaptive index for said modified loading plan suitable for said current transportation; and

recording said modified loading plan suitable for said current transportation and said corresponding adaptive index in said historic loading plan record.

12. An apparatus for processing logistic information, comprising;

a module for receiving information of articles to be loaded, configured to receiving information of articles to be loaded, indicating items and numbers of said articles to be loaded;

a module for reading historic loading plan record, configured to read a historic loading plan record, an entry of said historic loading plan record at least comprising a loading plan and an adaptive index corresponding to said loading plan; and

a module for generating loading plan, configured to generate a loading plan suitable for current transportation based on said historic loading plan record and said information of said articles to be loaded.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein said module for generating said loading plan comprises:

means configured for calculating relevance between said articles to be loaded based on said historic loading plan record;

means configured for allocating articles to be loaded that have higher relevance than a relevance threshold into a same loading set; and

means configured for including said articles to be loaded belonging to said same loading set into said loading plan suitable for said current transportation.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13, further comprising:

means configured for selecting a loading plan including articles to be loaded belonging to said same loading set from said historic loading plan record; and

means configured for calculating said numbers of respective articles to be loaded included in said loading plan suitable for said current transportation based on said selected loading plan.

15. The apparatus according to claim 14, wherein said means configured for calculating said relevance between articles to be loaded based on said historic loading plan record comprises:

means configured for calculating said relevance weighted by an adaptive index between articles to be loaded.

16. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein said module for generating loading plan comprises:

means configured for calculating an approximation index between articles to be loaded and a loading plan in said historic loading plan record;

means configured for selecting a loading plan from said historic loading plan record based on said approximation index;

means configured for determining articles to be loaded included in said loading plan suitable for said current transportation based on said selected loading plan; and

means configured for calculating said numbers of respective articles to be loaded included in said loading plan suitable for said current transportation based on said selected loading plan.

17. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein said means configured for calculating said approximation index between articles to be loaded and a loading plan in said historic loading plan record comprises:

means configured for calculating said approximation index weighted by an adaptive index between articles to be loaded and said loading plan in said historic loading plan record;

18. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein said means configured for calculating said numbers of respective articles to be loaded included in said loading plan suitable for said current transportation based on said selected loading plan comprise:

means configured for calculating said numbers of respective articles included in said loading plan suitable for said current transportation based on said historic loading plan record by solving a mathematical planning problem.

19. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein said means configured for calculating numbers of respective articles to be loaded included in said loading plan suitable for said current transportation based on said selected loading plan comprise:

means configured for calculating said numbers of respective articles included in said loading plan suitable for said current transportation based on said historic loading plan record with an artificial neural network.

20. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein said means configured for calculating numbers of respective articles to be loaded included in said loading plan suitable for said current transportation based on said selected loading plan comprise;

means configured for calculating said numbers of respective articles included in said loading plan suitable for said current transportation based on said historic loading plan record with a statistical method.

21. The apparatus according to claim 12, further comprising:

means configured for receiving an adaptive index for said loading plan suitable for said current transportation; and

means configured for recording said loading plan suitable for said current transportation and said corresponding adaptive index in said historic loading plan record.

22. The apparatus according to claim 12, further comprising:

means configured for receiving modification to said loading plan suitable for said current transportation, to obtain a modified loading plan suitable for said current transportation;

means configured for receiving an adaptive index for said modified loading plan suitable for said current transportation; and

means configured for recording said modified loading plan suitable for said current transportation and said corresponding adaptive index in said historic loading plan record.