An investigation into knowledge-based yard crane scheduling for container terminals

Advanced Engineering Informatics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 462-471

  Yan, Wei ^a   Huang, Youfang ^a   Chang, Daofang ^b   He, Junliang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge reasoning; Knowledge sorting process; Knowledge based system; Yard crane scheduling

Indexed keywords

CONTAINER TERMINAL; CRUCIAL POSITION; KNOWLEDGE REASONING; KNOWLEDGE SORTING PROCESS; OPERATIONAL COSTS; OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES; OPERATIONAL PROCESS; SORTING PROCESS; TREE GENERATION; YARD CRANE SCHEDULING;

ENERGY UTILIZATION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PORT TERMINALS; RAILROAD YARDS AND TERMINALS; SHIP CRANES;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 79960176266     PISSN: 14740346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2011.03.001     Document Type: Article

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