Optimization of container terminal unloading operations based upon multistage flexible flowshop scheduling

Applied Mechanics and Materials

Volumn 97-98, Issue , 2011, Pages 633-639

  Massami, Erick ^a   Jin, Zhihong ^a  

^a DALIAN MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Container terminal; Genetic Algorithm; Multistage flexible flowshop; Schedule length; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; CONTAINER TERMINAL; FINITE PLANNING HORIZON; FLEXIBLE FLOWSHOP; GLOBAL LOWER BOUNDS; MARITIME CONTAINER TERMINAL; METAHEURISTIC; NP-HARD; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES; PROBLEM INSTANCES; SCHEDULE LENGTH; SOLUTION METHODS;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PORT TERMINALS; RAILROAD YARDS AND TERMINALS; SCHEDULING; UNLOADING;

CONTAINERS;

EID: 80053654230     PISSN: 16609336     EISSN: 16627482     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.97-98.633     Document Type: Conference Paper

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