Development of a profit-based air cargo loading information system

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 303-312

  Lau, Henry C W ^a   Tsui, W T ^a   Lee, C K M ^a   Ho, G T S ^a   Ning, A ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Airfreight forwarding business; Heuristics; Objective function; Profit optimization; Rule based reasoning

Indexed keywords

CARGO AIRCRAFT; CARGO HANDLING; COMPETITION; HEURISTIC METHODS; LOGISTICS; OPTIMIZATION; SCHEDULING;

AIRFREIGHT FORWARDING BUSINESS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION; PROFIT OPTIMIZATION; RULE BASED REASONING;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 33751504602     PISSN: 15513203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TII.2006.885193     Document Type: Article

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