Moving Objects Relational Model and Design for e-Logistics Applications

Since the advent of Internet technology, the computing environment in many applications has been changed drastically. Especially, the e-Logistics is the virtual logistics business activity and service architecture among the companies based on the Internet technology. To construct effectively the e-Logistics framework, several advanced technologies such as GPS, GIS, ITS with moving objects technique are required. Although these advanced technologies have a lot of characteristics that enable support of new services as well as reduce the cost of transportation of logistics, they also have common things that must be resolved in terms of efficiency and effectiveness of moving objects management. The weakness of these techniques is that they always consider only the information that is valid at the current time, and hard to manage the past and future information. To overcome this problem, the researches on moving objects management system (MOMS) have been started from a few years ago. In this paper, we propose the model and system design of moving objects management system for e-Logistics applications. The MOMS architecture in e-Logistics are suggested and the detailed explain of sub-systems of MOMS are described.