Management of container terminal operations is essentially the allocation and scheduling of the expensive resources such as berths, quay cranes, storage space, yard cranes, and container carriers. Each of these resources plays an indispensable role in the interlocking processes in a container terminal. In this survey we give a critical review and a comparative study on various decision problems...

This paper presents a novel approach for experimentally simulating various environmental conditions and container parameters on air conditioning and refrigeration (AC&R) systems. The proposed emulation technique uses a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) system to simulate the loading conditions on the evaporator during experimental testing. The evaporator air inlet conditions are controlled with a smal...

The container pre-marshaling problem (PMP) is an important optimization problem that arises in terminals where containers are stacked in bays before they are collected by vessels. However, if a due container is stacked underneath other containers, it is blocked, and additional relocations are necessary to retrieve the container from the bay, which can cause significantly delays. To avoid this e...

This study presented participants with conditional statements with content that was group-related, container-related, and a combination of group and container. Participants received modus ponens, modus tollens, denying the antecedent, affirming the consequent, and inconsistent forms of conditional arguments. Results demonstrated a significant advantage of the group over the container wording fo...

Leading topic of this article is description of Lorentz forces in the container with cuboid and cylindrical shape. Inside of the container is an electrically conductive melt. This melt is driven by rotating magnetic field. Input data for comparing Lorentz forces in the container with cuboid shape were obtained from the computing program NS-FEM3D, which uses DDS method of computing. Values of Lo...

Container stacking rules are an important factor in container terminal efficiency. We build on prior research and use a discrete-event simulation model to evaluate the impact of a truck announcement system on the performance of online container stacking rules. The information that is contained in the announcement, i.e., the expected departure time for an import container, can be used to schedul...

Containers are ubiquitous in daily life. By container, we consider any physical object that can contain other objects, such as bowls, bottles, baskets, trash cans, refrigerators, etc. In this paper, we are interested in following questions: What is a container? Will an object contain another object? How many objects will a container hold? We study those problems by evaluating human cognition of...

Given a set of k disjoint convex polygonal obstacles inside a triangular container, we add straight-line noncrossing edges such that each obstacle has three vertex-disjoint paths to the container. We prove combinatorial bounds on the minimum number of edges that are always sufficient and sometimes necessary. Figure 1: A triangular container with disjoint convex obstacles.

the dramatic increasing of sea-freight container transportations and the developing trend for using containers in the multimodal handling systems through the sea, rail, road and land in the present market cause some challenges to the general managers of container terminals such as increasing demand, competitive situation, new investments and expansion of new activities and the need to use new m...

It is well known that the content management system (CMS) and the broadcast management system (BMS) are the most essential components of an IPTV system. An IPTV system retrieves container files from the CMS and delivers them to the end users through the BMS. Therefore, most of research works about IPTV systems handle container files. However, a container is a mix of video, audio, computer graph...