A neighborhood search heuristic for pre-marshalling export containers

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 468-475

  Lee, Yusin ^a   Chao, Shih Liang ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Export container pre marshalling; Integer programming; Logistics; Neighborhood search; Transportation

Indexed keywords

CONTAINERS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; PAPER CONTAINERS; SHIPS; SUBROUTINES;

EXPORT CONTAINER PRE-MARSHALLING; LOADING SEQUENCES; MOVEMENT PLANS; NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCH; ONE WAYS; OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES; TESTING RESULTS;

LOADING;

EID: 58149234206     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2008.03.011     Document Type: Article

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