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The aim of this paper is to introduce the architecture of a system that combines the strengths of agents and web services to address the practical application of freight brokering. This is an important real-life business problem which aims to provide matchmaking services that facilitate the connection of the owners of goods with the freight transportation providers. The paper presents the general architecture of the system including agents and web services, as well as the use cases and the details of its main operations. Our system can be beneficial to logistics companies by increasing the quality of provided services and by reducing costs.
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Leon, F., Bădică, C. (2016). A Freight Brokering System Architecture Based on Web Services and Agents. In: Borangiu, T., Dragoicea, M., Nóvoa, H. (eds) Exploring Services Science. IESS 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 247. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32689-4_41
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