Machine configuration selection has a great impact on the system-level reliability of a manufacturing system, while the absence of proper consideration of the product quality and the tool degradation on tool failure when determining the machine-level reliability is likely to result in...

For a container terminal system, efficient berth and quay crane (QC) schedules have great impact on the improvement of both operation efficiency and customer satisfaction. In this paper we address berth and quay crane scheduling problems in a simultaneous way, with uncertainties of vessel...