Vehicle Scheduling in Port Automation
Rashidi
Tsang
Second
Edition
Second Edition
ISBN: 978-1-4987-3253-6
9 781498 732536
90000
K26250
Container terminals are constantly being challenged to adjust their
throughput capacity to match uctuating demand. Examining the
optimization problems encountered in today’s container terminals,
Vehicle Scheduling in Port Automation: Advanced Algorithms for
Minimum Cost Flow Problems, Second Edition provides advanced
algorithms for handling the scheduling of automated guided
vehicles (AGVs) in ports.
The research reported in this book represents a complete package
that can help readers address the scheduling problems of AGVs
in ports. The techniques presented are general and can easily be
adapted to other areas.
This book is ideal for port authorities and researchers, including
specialists and graduate students in operation research. For
specialists, it provides novel and efcient algorithms for network ow
problems. For students, it supplies the most comprehensive survey
of the eld along with a rigorous formulation of the problems in port
automation.
This book is divided into two parts. Part one explores the various
optimization problems in modern container terminals. The second
part details advanced algorithms for the minimum cost ow (MCF)
problem and for the scheduling problem of AGVs in ports.
The book classies optimization problems into ve scheduling
decisions. For each decision, it supplies an overview, formulates
each of the decisions as constraint satisfaction and optimization
problems, and then covers possible solutions, implementation, and
performance.
The book extends the dynamic network simplex algorithm, the fastest
algorithm for solving the minimum cost ow problem, and develops
four new advanced algorithms. In order to verify and validate the
algorithms presented, the authors discuss the implementation of the
algorithm to the scheduling problem of AGVs in container terminals.
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