Method and apparatus for processing logistic information

• US 8,682,808 B2
• Filed: 01/28/2011
• Issued: 03/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Maplebear Inc.
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Ding, Hong Wei, Dong, Jin, Qiu, Minmin, Wang, Wei, Xie, Yan Qing
• Primary Examiner(s): Allen, Akiba
• Application Number:
  US13/015,690
• Publication Number:
  US 20110191258A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,152 Days
• Field of Search: 705/337, 705/341, 705/330, 705/331, 705/332, 705/333
• US Class Current: 705/337
• 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, by a processor, information of articles to be loaded, indicating items and numbers of said articles to be loaded;

reading, said processor, a historic loading plan record, an entry of said historic loading plan record at least comprising a loading plan and an adaptive index based on a scoring of said loading plan; and

generating, by said processor, a loading plan suitable for current transportation based on said loading plan and said adaptive index of said historic loading plan record, 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 loading plan and said adaptive index of 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, by said processor, a loading plan including articles to be loaded belonging to said same loading set from said historic loading plan record; and

calculating, by said processor, 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, by said processor, 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 loading plan and said adaptive index of 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, by said processor, an adaptive index for said loading plan suitable for said current transportation; and

recording, by said processor, 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, by said processor, modification to said loading plan suitable for said current transportation, to obtain a modified loading plan suitable for said current transportation;

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

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

23. The method according to claim 2, wherein calculating, relevance between said articles to be loaded based on said historic loading plan record comprises:

determining relevance between an article i and an article j;

P(I,j)=Rr1/Rr2

wherein r1 and r2 both denote past loading plans, R_r1 and R_r2 denote adaptive indexes corresponding to r1 and r2, and R denotes a historic loading plan record.

12. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium for processing logistic information, the computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising:

computer readable program code configured to receive information of articles to be loaded, indicating items and numbers of said articles to be loaded;

computer readable program code 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 based on a scoring of said loading plan; and

computer readable program code configured to generate a loading plan suitable for current transportation based on said loading plan and said adaptive index of said historic loading plan record, and said information of said articles to be loaded.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 12, wherein said computer readable program code configured to generate said loading plan suitable for current transportation is further configured:

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

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

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

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 13, wherein said computer readable program code configured to generate said loading plan suitable for current transportation is further configured:

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

to calculate 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 non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 14, wherein said computer readable program code configured to generate said loading plan suitable for current transportation is further configured:

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

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 12, wherein said computer readable program code configured to generate said loading plan suitable for current transportation is further configured:

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

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

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

to calculate 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 non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 16, wherein said computer readable program code configured to generate said loading plan suitable for current transportation is further configured:

to calculate 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 non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 16, wherein said computer readable program code configured to generate said loading plan suitable for current transportation is further configured:

to calculate 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 non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 16, wherein said computer readable program code configured to generate said loading plan suitable for current transportation is further configured:

to calculate 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 non-transitory computer readable storage medium apparatus according to claim 16, wherein said computer readable program code configured to generate said loading plan suitable for current transportation is further configured:

to calculate 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 non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 12, further comprising:

computer readable program code a recording module embodied on a nontransitory computer readable storage medium configured to receive an adaptive index for said loading plan suitable for said current transportation; and

the recording module being further configured to record said loading plan suitable for said current transportation and said corresponding adaptive index in said historic loading plan record.

22. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 12, wherein said computer readable program code configured to receive said adaptive index for said loading plan suitable for said current transportation is further configured:

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

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

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

24. An apparatus comprising:

a memory; and

one or more processors, coupled to said memory, and operative to;

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

read a historic loading plan record, an entry of said historic loading plan record at least comprising a loading plan and an adaptive index based on a scoring of said loading plan; and

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

25. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein the entry of the historic loading plan record further includes a transportation tool corresponding to the loading plan.