Maritime transportation plays a critical role in global trade as it accounts for over 80% of all merchandise movement. Given the growing volume maritime freight, is vital to have an efficient system handling ships and cargos at ports. The current first-come-first-serve method insufficient maintaining operational efficiency, especially under complicated conditions such parallel scheduling with d...

The optimal assignment of berth slots and cranes to shipping services is the central logistics problem at modern marine container terminals and should be formulated to specifically account for its stochastic nature. We use a computational grid to solve a major seaport logistic problem by a simulation optimization approach centred around a queuing network model of the logistic process of interes...

Berths and yards are the most critical parts of container terminals. Their efficiency directly influences terminal operation efficiency. The multi-period coordinated optimization on berth allocation yard assignment has been studied considering a interaction between yard. problem is formulated as an integer programming, aimed at minimizing total truck travel distance, where decision variables be...

Catalogue browsing is a well known activity in the library world. We are all familiar with the box of cards that is used by the librarian who browsed it over in order to find the card for the book we were searching for. The Catalogue Browsing Access Paradigm (CBAP) that is suggested in this report aims at providing the users with the same feeling of the actual catalogue browsing activity while ...

in the new production systems, finding a way to improving the product and system reliability in design is a very important. the reliability of the products and systems may improve using different methods. one of this methods is redundancy allocation problem. in this problem by adding redundant component to sub-systems under some constraints, the reliability improved. in this paper we worked on ...