This review examines the current state-of-the-art in short-term planning for open-pit mines,
with a granularity that spans days, weeks or months, and a horizon of less than one to two …

There is an everlasting distance and interdependence between mines and end-users as it
involves different types of equipment, infrastructure, and facilities, including excavators …

This paper presents the distributed no-wait flowshop scheduling problem (DNFSP), which is
the first attempt in the literature to solve this key problem faced by the manufacturing …

In-Pit Crushing and Conveying (IPCC) has gained momentum in recent years to replace
trucks partially or fully in large open pit mines because of the shovel-truck system's …

This work describes a genetic algorithm based approach for the optimization of the Hunter
Valley coal export system in Newcastle, Australia. The Port of Newcastle features three coal …

The increase in the complexity of supply chains requires greater efforts to align the activities
of all its members in order to improve the creation of value of their products or services …

We consider the multiple-time-period, short-term production scheduling problem for a
network of multiple open-pit mines and ports. Ore produced at each mine, in each period, is …

Mining is an important economic activity and a highly complex industry. As such, it demands
a complex supply chain to connect mines to clients, often involving railways, ports and long …

This study develops a column generation-based distributed scheduling algorithm for multi-
mode resource constrained project scheduling problem. The proposed distributed algorithm …

This paper examines a resource constrained production planning and scheduling problem
motivated by the coal supply chain. In this problem, multiple independent producers are …