Container terminals offer transfer facilities to move containers from vessels to trucks, trains and barges and vice versa. Within the terminal the container yard serves as a temporary buffer where incoming containers are piled up in stacks. Only the topmost container of each stack can be accessed. If another container has to be retrieved, containers stored above it must be relocated first. Cont...

A k-container C(u, v) of a graph G is a set of k-disjoint paths joining u to v. A k-container C(u, v) of G is a k∗-container if it contains all the vertices of G. A graph G is k∗-connected if there exists a k∗-container between any two distinct vertices. Let (G) be the connectivity of G. A graph G is super connected if G is i∗-connected for all 1 i (G). A bipartite graph G is k∗-laceable if the...

This paper presented a genetic algorithm (GA) to solve the container storage problem in the port. This problem is studied with different container types such as regular, open side, open top, tank, empty and refrigerated containers. The objective of this problem is to determine an optimal containers arrangement, which respects customers’ delivery deadlines, reduces the re-handle operations of co...

This study recruited 16 industrial workers to examine the effects of material, weight, and base area of container on reduction of grip force (ΔGF) and heart rate for a 100-m manual carrying task. This study examined 2 carrying materials (iron and water), 4 carrying weights (4.4, 8.9, 13.3, 17.8 kg), and 2 base areas of container (24 × 24 cm, 35 × 24 cm). This study showed that carrying water si...

This paper presents a Heuristic Genetic Algorithm (HGA) for optimizing two dimensional (2D) arbitrary sized heterogeneous box packing into a container, by considering practical constraints facing in the shipment container loading industries. Objective of this research is to pack heterogeneous boxes of varying length, width and constant height into a container of standard dimension, without viol...

For a long time, the term virtualization implied talking about hypervisor-based virtualization. However, in the past few years container-based virtualization got mature and especially Docker gained a lot of attention. Hypervisor-based virtualization provides strong isolation of a complete operating system whereas container-based virtualization strives to isolate processes from other processes a...

We propose a novel container-centric memory allocation scheme. In this scheme, the container’s semantics guide the memory allocation, which results in data locality improvement and execution time reduction. The container-centric allocation provides the benefits of custom memory allocation, with the portability advantage. Applications need not change a single line of code, but rather change the ...

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...

The term "contact aging" refers to the temporal evolution of the interface between a slider and a substrate usually resulting in increasing friction with time. Current phenomenological models for multiasperity contacts anticipate that such aging is not only the driving force behind the transition from static to sliding friction, but at the same time influences the general dynamics of the slidin...