Meta-heuristics implementation for scheduling of trucks in a cross-docking system with temporary storage

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1964-1979

  Boloori Arabani, A R ^a   Fatemi Ghomi, S M T ^a   Zandieh, M ^b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cross docking; Inbound trucks; Meta heuristics; Outbound trucks; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

CROSSDOCKING; CUSTOMER RESPONSE TIME; DISTRIBUTION NETWORK; HOMOGENEOUS ALGORITHM; INBOUND TRUCKS; INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; LARGE SIZES; LEAD TIME; MAKESPAN; META HEURISTICS; OPERATION TIME; OUTBOUND TRUCKS; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; SPACE REQUIREMENTS; TEMPORARY STORAGE; TOTAL COSTS;

AUTOMOBILES; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; DOCKING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

TRUCKS;

EID: 78049529305     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.07.130     Document Type: Article

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