AI Cost Negotiation System for Transportation Services

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current automated negotiation systems for transportation services often fail to optimize costs effectively, leading to erroneous negotiations that impact profitability and transportation costs, necessitating a real-time, dynamic, and adaptive AI-based solution for efficient cost negotiation.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method and system that trains an AI system using historical data to negotiate with users in real-time, setting a negotiation model perimeter based on thresholds, profit margins, and interaction data, allowing for continuous interaction and real-time cost quotation adjustments based on user responses and current conditions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Extent of automation

If traditional automated negotiation systems are used for transportation services, then the negotiation process can be automated, but the cost optimization effectiveness deteriorates leading to erroneous negotiations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveautomation of negotiation processVSAvoidcost optimization effectiveness
Core Design Contradiction:
Extent of automationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously monitors user responses during negotiation and adjusts its strategy in real-time based on feedback signals. The AI analyzes user reactions to cost quotations and modifies subsequent negotiation moves accordingly, enabling adaptive negotiation that improves reliability while maintaining automation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The AI negotiation system autonomously manages the entire negotiation process without human intervention. It independently analyzes data, formulates strategies, presents quotations, and adjusts proposals based on user responses, achieving both high automation and improved cost optimization effectiveness through self-directed intelligent negotiation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If real-time negotiation adjustments are made based on user responses, then cost optimization improves, but the negotiation time and interaction complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecost optimizationVSAvoidnegotiation time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The negotiation system dynamically adjusts its behavior based on real-time user responses and changing conditions. It adapts the negotiation strategy, quotation timing, and proposal content according to user feedback patterns, achieving effective cost optimization while managing negotiation duration through intelligent responsiveness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes key negotiation parameters such as cost quotations, negotiation timing, and proposal details based on analyzed user responses and current conditions. By continuously adjusting these parameters in real-time, the system optimizes costs while controlling negotiation time through data-driven parameter modification.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Measurement precision

If continuous learning from historical data is implemented, then negotiation accuracy improves, but the system complexity and data processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenegotiation accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-processes and stores historical negotiation data and patterns before actual negotiations occur. By preparing training data and negotiation strategies in advance from historical information, the system achieves high negotiation accuracy while managing complexity through pre-computed models and patterns.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The AI system creates virtual copies of successful negotiation strategies and patterns from historical data. By replicating and adapting proven negotiation approaches from past interactions, the system achieves high accuracy without requiring complex real-time analysis, thus managing system complexity through pattern replication rather than complex computation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS11468535B2Method and system for real-time, dynamic and adaptive artificial-intelligence based cost negotiation for transportation services
Publication Date: 2022.10.11 CAMIONS LOGISTICS SOLUTIONS PTE LTD
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AI summary

The present disclosure provides a method, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and a vehicle tracking system for real-time, dynamic and adaptive an artificial-intelligence based cost negotiation for transportation services. The system trains the artificial-intelligence based system to negotiate with one or more users for transportation services. In addition, the system obtains a first set of data from the one or more users. Further, the system prepares a first cost quotation for one or more transport vehicles. Furthermore, the system sends the first cost quotation to the one or more users. Moreover, the system receives a response from the one or more users for negotiating on cost. Also, the system analyses the response from the one or more users. Also, the system continuously interacts with the one or more users for the cost negotiation. Also, the system sends a final cost quotation to the one or more users.