This paper addresses the design of container liner shipping service networks by explicitly taking into account empty container repositioning. Two key and interrelated issues, those of deploying ships and containers are usually treated separately by most existing studies on shipping network design. In this paper, both issues are considered simultaneously. The problem is formulated as a two-stage...

Container name extraction is very important to the modern container management system.Similar techniques have been suggested for vehicle license plate recognition in past decades.Container name extraction has more complexity from license plate extraction because of the severity of nonuniform illumination and invalidation of color information.The main purpose of this paper is to propose a new me...

This section contains an overview of the different functional areas of a marine container terminal and a summary of the main types of container handling systems. The main advantages and disadvantages of each type of handling system are also summarized without focusing on technical details. 2.1 Functional Areas of Terminal Operations As every other terminal, a container terminal is a complex sys...

This paper treats a berth allocation problem in dedicated container terminals where feeder ships and container vessels are jointly served. When assigning quay space and a service time to each calling ship particular focus is put on the container exchange between feeder ships and vessels, so that the weighted number of containers delivered by feeder missing their intended vessel is minimized. Th...

Container security systems including electronic seals play an important role in securing container logistics. Nevertheless, a lack of standards prevents devices by different vendors from effective interoperability. Hence, this paper proposes an interdisciplinary perspective incorporating the agent paradigm of computer science. In this approach interaction between different autonomous entities i...

This paper presents a system architecture which is based on the multi-agent system paradigm for solving complex problems. This architecture is applied to solve the port container terminal management problem, and specifically to solve the automatic container allocation. The multi-agent systems paradigm seems to fit this problem due to its inherent complexity. This work is part of a project for t...

This paper deals a review of the uncertainty modeling in the placement of work space fixtures, say a container in the work space environment of the robot to do a particular task, i.e., to insert or remove some of the manufactured components from the bin or the container. The uncertainty model shown in this paper makes a compromise between the optical distortion using a camera and the robot prec...

Due to the continuously increasing container trade, many terminals are presently operating at or close to capacity. An efficient terminal is one that facilitates the quick transshipment of containers to and from ships. In this sake, this paper addresses the ship assignments problem at a maritime container terminal, where ships are normally assigned to specific quay cranes until the work is fini...