Modelling and Metaheuristic for Gantry Crane Scheduling and Storage Space Allocation Problem in Railway Container Terminals
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عنوان ژورنال: Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1026-0226,1607-887X
DOI: 10.1155/2017/9025482