PORTPLAN, decision support system for port terminals

Models underlying a decision support system (dss) for port terminal planning are described. Among others Markov models, queuing models and simple optimization models are considered. The integration of different models, each describing specific aspects of a decision situation, is one of the major problems in the development of a dss. This paper gives a good insight in this problem field. The paper gives also some theoretical results related to some models that might be interesting in other contexts.