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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to deal with an optimal consolidation problem for fresh agricultural products (e.g. fruits and vegetables) in a multi-temperature joint distribution (MTJD) system that is developed to resolve the challenge of timely delivery of small and diverse shipments...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to improve the efficiency of loading and discharging operations in container terminals. Accounting for an increase in the size of ships, the yard truck (YT) routing and scheduling problem has become an important issue to terminal operators....
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A variety of analytical and simulation-based models and algorithms have been developed for the dynamic user equilibrium (DUE) traffic assignment problem. This paper aims to develop a theoretically sound simulation-based DUE model and its solution algorithm, with particular emphasis on obtaining...
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The broad applications of cellular manufacturing make the cell formation problem (CFP) a core subject in the field of manufacturing. Due to the combinatorial nature of the CFP, a simulated annealing-based meta-heuristic with variable neighbourhood was developed to form part-machine cells. To...
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Meta-heuristics that attempt to obtain (near) global optimal solutions of NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems generally require diversification to escape from local optimality. One way to achieve diversification is to utilize the multi-start hill climbing strategy. By combining the...
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This paper presents a generalized weighted vertex p-center (WVPC) model that represents uncertain nodal weights and edge lengths using prescribed intervals or ranges. The objective of the robust WVPC (RWVPC) model is to locate p facilities on a given set of candidate sites so as to minimize...
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