The assignment of storage locations to containers for a container stack

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 699-713

  Wan, Yat Wah ^a   Liu, Jiyin ^b   Tsai, Pei Chun ^a  

^a NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Container stacking; Container terminals; Heuristics; Integer programs; Location assignment

Indexed keywords

CONTAINER TERMINAL; DYNAMIC NATURE; DYNAMIC PROBLEM; FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM; INTEGER PROGRAM; INTEGER PROGRAMS; LOCATION ASSIGNMENT; STACK CONFIGURATIONS; STATIC PROBLEMS; STORAGE LOCATION;

COMPETITION; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LOCATION; PORT TERMINALS; RAILROAD YARDS AND TERMINALS;

CONTAINERS;

EID: 73049087910     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: 15206750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.20373     Document Type: Article

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