Coordination of Interdependent Planning Systems, a Case Study

The decomposition of planning and scheduling problems is a well known technique to make these problems tractable. The resulting dependable subproblems were often solved using different planning systems. In this article we focus on an example from the container terminal management. We point out the dependencies between the planning systems. Using a subset of the container terminal management problem we show that an uncoordinated or only naively coordinated solution is not sufficient to generate feasible or effective plans.