This paper focuses on a fleet management problem that arises in container trucking industry. From the container transportation company perspective, the present and future operating costs to minimize can be divided in three components: the routing costs, the resource (i.e., driver and truck) assignment costs and the container repositioning costs (i.e., the costs of restoring a given container fl...

The last decade has seen tremendous investments in new container ports, vessels, and linked onshore transportation systems. Due to the high level of customer service requested and the complexity of logistic processes in seaport container terminals, many terminal operators have attempted to improve the performance of their terminals by applying new technologies including automated equipment, adv...

Most container terminals are still using a bar code system for gate passage of trucks and containers, and also using paper documents (slip) for the delivery of the information on storage location of container in a yard. For this reason, most trucks have to stop at the gate of the container terminals in order to perform several basic jobs. To enhance the productivity of gate management, this stu...

In the process of decommissioning contaminated facilities, and in the conduct of normal operations involving radioactive material, it is frequently required to measure radioactivity in large containers such as 200 liter drums. For solid material, it is quite unusual for the radioactivity to be homogeneously distributed throughout the container. One way to derive the concentration of radioactivi...

The paper presents a container stacking model that simulates, solves and optimizes the container stacking activity within a fluvial or maritime port. This activity constitutes a real world problem that is omnipresent in logistic and transportation domain. Given container arrivals in a container port terminal, the objective is to assign a slot to each one in a storage area at least cost with res...

We exploit the ability to represent data types as container functors [2,1,3] to develop a novel approach to proving properties of lists using arithmetic decision procedures. Containers capture the idea that concrete data types can be characterised by specifying the shape values take and for every possible shape, explaining where positions within that shape are stored. More importantly, a repres...

This paper presents a genetic algorithm (GA)-based optimisation approach to improve container handling operations at the Patrick AutoStrad container terminal located in Brisbane Australia. In this paper we focus on scheduling for container transfers and encode the problem using a two-part chromosome approach which is then solved using a modified genetic algorithm. In simulation experiments, the...

After the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 in U.S., the container security issue got high attention, especially by U.S. government, which deployed a lot of measures to promote or improve security systems. U.S. government not only enhances its national security system, but allies with other countries against the potential terrorist attacks in the future. For example CSI (Container Security...

Parsing of sentences based on Dependency Grammar is emulated with a constraintand unification-based mechanism that preserves single-headedness and projectivity in syntactic dependency. Working on Chinese, and referring to English at times, the authors have treated subcategorization properties of verbs on the assumptions that relative positions of obligatory complements of a verb are fixed, and ...

This study describes a new method developed to determine the 3D positional displacements of the drainage networks extracted from Digital Elevation Models (DEMs). The proposed method establishes several stages for data preparation. The displacements are derived by means of linestring-based assessment methods, which can be applied in 2D and 3D. Also, we propose the use of several tools (maps, agg...