The motivation for this thesis resulted from a study of semi-automated rail mounted gantry cranes at an Australian seaport container terminal. The Sequential Ordering Problem with Time Windows (SOP-TW) can arise as a subproblem of these crane operations. The SOP-TW corresponds to the task of scheduling a single crane to move a set of containers, where each container has: a fixed pick-up locatio...

In this paper, we studied a crane scheduling problem, i.e., the scheduling of RMCs to minimize the total weighted remaining work for the blocks in a terminal storage yard. The approach is a mix of planning method from AI and optimization methods based on MIP formulation. We implemented a DSS to incorporate both AI techniques and OR models. The experiments in simulation environment showed promis...

This paper constructs a berth-quay crane capacity planning model with the lowest average daily cost in container terminal, and analyzes influence of number berths quay cranes on terminal operation. The object is to optimize maximize benefits terminal. A steady state probability transfer based Markov chain for constructed by historical time series queuing process. current minimum operation princ...

Tower cranes are major and expensive equipment that are extensively used at building construction projects and harbors for lifting heavy objects to demand points. The tower crane locating problem to position a tower crane and supply points in a building construction site for supplying all requests in minimum time, has been raised from more than twenty years ago. This problem has already been so...

In this article, equipment overhaul is considered in a multi-stage flow shop scheduling problem. problem, the equipments are disassembled first stage, and repairs done on parallel workshops second assembly operation third stage. Considering three-stage with machines stages new industry. The sequence of processing determined as well allocation should be such way that total completion time jobs m...

In this paper we develop a model for small scale examination scheduling. Beginning with a formulation of a quadratic assignment problem we show the transformation into a quadratic semi assignment problem and its application to a real world situation. Using simulated annealing we demonstrate the model's ability to generate schedules that satisfy student as well as university expectations.