Integrated scheduling of handling equipment at automated container terminals

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 373-394

  Lau, Henry Y K ^a   Zhao, Ying ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Automated container terminal; Genetic algorithm; Integrated scheduling

Indexed keywords

EID: 38749148521     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-007-0262-5     Document Type: Article

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