Risk management in liner ship fleet deployment: A joint chance constrained programming model

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 60, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-12

  Wang, Tingsong ^a   Meng, Qiang ^b   Wang, Shuaian ^c   Tan, Zhijia ^d  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^d HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Joint chance constraint; Liner ship fleet deployment; Sample average approximation; Uncertain demand

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CONTAINER SHIP; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHIPPING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84886293942     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2013.09.001     Document Type: Article

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