Simultaneous dock assignment and sequencing of inbound trucks under a fixed outbound truck schedule in multi-door cross docking operations

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 212-229

  Liao, T W ^a   Egbelu, P J ^b   Chang, P C ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Combinatorial optimization; Cross docking; Differential evolution; Dock assignment; Hybrid metaheuristics; Sequencing; Simulated annealing; Tabu search

Indexed keywords

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION (ACO); CROSSDOCKING; DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION; HYBRID METAHEURISTICS; SEQUENCING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMOBILES; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; DOCKING; DOCKS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; PACKET NETWORKS; SIMULATED ANNEALING; TABU SEARCH;

TRUCKS;

EID: 84869502731     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2012.03.037     Document Type: Article

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