In this paper, we propose a general model for various scheduling problems that occur in container terminal logistics … generator for experimental data, we examine the performance of the heuristics in a computational study. We obtain promising …

potential and trends for the future development of the Brazilian logistics and transport sector for agricultural bulk products … Schüttgüter am Beispiel von Sojabohnen. Um den Einfluss von Transport und Logistik auf die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Sojaproduktion …This study examines the relevance of Brazilian domestic transportation and logistics processes for agricultural bulk …

potential is high, and railway infrastructure, brownfields and new hubs of logistics are key areas of development; still none of … these sectors are at their full potential. The case study introduces the historical background and evolution of logistics … passenger services and investments aiming to increase the usage of railway in freight and passenger transport. The study …

Today's competitive market for logistics services requires providers of such services to be capable of successfully … through implementing new or improved methodical, social, structural or technological concepts seeking to increase logistics … service capabilities. This research aims at supporting decision makers of logistics service provides in enhancing their …

results. In many cases it is based on some a priori knowledge from economic theory and a rather heuristic procedure for … optimization of the lag structure over the whole set of possible multivariate lag structures with regard to a given information … criterion, e.g. the Hannan-Quinn estimator or Akaike's final prediction error criterion. The optimization is performed by the …

heuristics do better. In priority rule-based scheduling, attempts to remedy this have been made by combining simple priority …

individuals use simple rules of thumb (heuristics) to forecast the future inflation and output gap. We compare this model with the …

an NP-hard problem, it is unlikely that optimum solutions can be computed for large instances. Thus, heuristics have … evaluate their heuristics on the basis of a best known lower bound, but it is unclear how good the performance really is. With …