Deployment strategies of double-rail-mounted gantry crane systems for loading outbound containers in container terminals

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 221-228

  Cao, Zhi ^a   Lee, Der Horng ^a   Meng, Qiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Double rail mounted gantry crane (DRMG); Scheduling; Scheduling heuristic

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CONTAINERS; CRANES; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LOADING; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PAPER CONTAINERS; RAILS; SCHEDULING;

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENTS; CONTAINER TERMINALS; CRANE SYSTEMS; DOUBLE-RAIL-MOUNTED GANTRY CRANE (DRMG); GREEDY HEURISTIC; HIGH POTENTIAL; INTEGER PROGRAMMING MODELS; OPERATION STRATEGY; SCHEDULING HEURISTIC; SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHMS;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

ALGORITHMS; ANNEALING; CONTAINERS; CRANES; HEURISTIC METHODS; RAILS; SCHEDULING;

EID: 49249118218     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2008.05.014     Document Type: Article

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