Robust schedule design for liner shipping services

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1093-1106

  Wang, Shuaian ^a   Meng, Qiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Liner shipping; Port time; Sample average approximation; Schedule robustness; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

LINEAR PROGRAMING; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PORT OPERATION; SERVICE SECTOR; SHIPPING; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84862255054     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2012.04.007     Document Type: Article

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