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ANOR
2008
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Scheduling vessels and container-yard operations with conflicting objectives
Abstract We consider the problem of coordinating the operations of two supply chain partners: a foreign shipping company and a domestic port. The two partners have conflicting busi...
Endre Boros, Lei Lei, Yao Zhao, Hua Zhong
WSC
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Simulation-based optimization for the quay crane scheduling problem
Maritime terminals of pure transhipment are emerging logistic realities in long-distance containerized trade. Here, complex activities of resource allocation and scheduling should...
Pasquale Legato, Rina Mary Mazza, Roberto Trunfio
FLAIRS
2008
13 years 11 months ago
A Framework for Merging Qualitative Constraints Networks
Spatial or temporal reasoning is an important task for many applications in Artificial Intelligence, such as space scheduling, navigation of robots, etc. Several qualitative appro...
Jean-François Condotta, Souhila Kaci, Nicol...
MAGS
2008
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Retractable contract network for empowerment in workforce scheduling
This paper is about business modelling and negotiation protocol design in distributed scheduling, where individual agents have individual (potentially conflicting) interests. It i...
Edward P. K. Tsang, Timothy Gosling, Botond Virgin...
CORR
2008
Springer
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An Indirect Genetic Algorithm for a Nurse Scheduling Problem
This paper describes a Genetic Algorithms approach to a manpower-scheduling problem arising at a major UK hospital. Although Genetic Algorithms have been successfully used for sim...
Uwe Aickelin, Kathryn A. Dowsland