Abstract
Container terminals are facilities where cargo containers are transshipped between different transport vehicles, for onward transportation. They are open systems that carry out a large number of different combinatorial problems that can be solved by means of Artificial Intelligence techniques. In this work, we focus our attention on scheduling a number of incoming vessels by assigning to each a berthing position, a mooring time and a number of Quay Cranes. This problem is known as the Berthing Allocation and Quay Crane Assignment problem. To formulate the problem, we first propose a mixed integer linear programming model to minimize the total weighted service time of the incoming vessels. Then, a meta-heuristic algorithm (Genetic Algorithm (GA)) is presented for solving the proposed problem. Computational experiments are performed to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method.Keywordsschedulingplanninggenetic algorithmsmetaheuristicsberthing allocationquay crane assignment
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