Background. Complex, dynamic systems require flexible workforces with skills and attitudes responding to the dynamic work environment. Traditional, formal classroomoriented learning approaches often do not sufficiently support the development of such skills and attitudes and do not provide situated learning activities. Aim and Method. We propose the concept of Microgames as an active, situated ...

Nowadays competition between port container terminals, especially between geographically close ones, is rapidly increasing. How to improve the competitiveness of port container terminals is, therefore, an immediate challenge, with which port operators are confronted. In terms of port competitiveness, the makespan of a container vessel, which is the latest completion time among all handling task...

Committed to converting the Port of Balboa into a major transshipment hub, Panama Ports Company (PPC) launched in 2006 a $300-million expansion program to increase berthing and stacking space that would almost triple the port capacity. The site’s history of marine-related activities, deteriorating facilities, buried structures, and poor soils mandated significant investment in clearing and prep...

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...

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...

We describe a heuristic algorithm for scheduling the movement of multiple factory cranes mounted on a common track. The cranes must complete a sequence of tasks at locations along the track without crossing paths, while adhering as closely as possible to a factory production schedule. The algorithm creates a decision tree of possible states of the crane system, which evolves over time as tasks ...