Abstract Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) systems are already in widespread use and their
importance for material handling is expected to grow rapidly. The advantages that such …

Abstract The interest on Automated Guided Vehicle Systems (AGVS) research has
increased significantly in the last decade. Among the many issues associated with the …

To reduce delay in ship operations in automated container terminals, it is important to make
different types of container handling equipment to operate harmoniously during this …

Scheduling is concerned with allocating limited resources to tasks to optimize certain
objective functions. Due to the popularity of the Total Quality Management concept, on-time …

The loading and unloading processes at quay and yard cranes are often studied separately,
despite that integrated scheduling of the two processes could benefit in improving …

We consider a container terminal discharging containers from a ship and locating them in
the terminal yard. Each container has a number of potential locations in the yard where it …

In this paper, an on-line dispatching algorithm is proposed for the FMS scheduling problem.
The algorithm uses various priority schemes and relevant information concerning the load of …

In automated container terminals, containers are transported from the marshalling yard to a
ship and vice versa by automated vehicles. The automated vehicle type studied in this paper …

Just‐in‐time (JIT) systems were originally designed for deterministic production
environments such as constant processing times and smooth and stable demand. However …

A number of different performance measures have been used in the design and analysis of
material handling systems. These performance measures have measured either:(1) the …