-vehicle-first rules (with and without look-ahead), which are the best vehicle dispatching rules known from literature and which are … approaches consistently outperform vehicle dispatching rules. Results also reveal that guide-path layout, load arrival rate and …

operations are essential to improve performance and productivity. Thereby, one main decision problem is dispatching the vehicles … on an extensive survey of dispatching literature published between 2000 and 2016, a classification scheme is developed … and applied to 81 scientific publications. The classification serves as a framework to propose a definition of dispatching …

The Apparent Tardiness Cost (ATC) dispatching rule was initially developed to minimize tardiness in single … have different efficiencies. This study develops a new dispatching rule for parallel-machine scheduling, considering … proposed method reduces the time interference factor of the denominator item in the dispatching rule and uses more effective …