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Truck Dock Assignment Problem with Time Windows and Capacity Constraint in Transshipment Network Through Crossdocks

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In this paper, we consider the over-constrained truck dock assignment problem with time windows and capacity constraint in transshipment network through crossdocks where the number of trucks exceeds the number of docks available, the capacity of the crossdock is limited, and where the objective is to minimize the total shipping distances. The problem is first formulated as an Integer Programming (IP) model, and then we propose a Tabu Search (TS) and a Genetic algorithms (GA) that utilize the IP constraints. Computational results are provided, showing that the heuristics perform better than the CPLEX Solver in both small-scale and large-scale test sets. Therefore, we conclude that the heuristic search approaches are efficient for the truck dock assignment problem.

Areas: Heuristics, industrial applications of AI.

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  1. Dept of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management, Hong Kong Univ of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Andrew Lim, Hong Ma & Zhaowei Miao

  2. School of Computer Science & Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guang Dong, P.R. China

    Andrew Lim & Zhaowei Miao

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Marina Gavrilova

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, via Vanvitelli, 1, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  3. William Norris Professor, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  4. OptimaNumerics Ltd., Cathedral House, 23-31 Waring Street, BT1 2DX, Belfast, UK

    C. J. Kenneth Tan

  5. Clayton School of IT, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, Australia

    David Taniar

  6. Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Antonio Laganá

  7. School of Computing, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea

    Youngsong Mun

  8. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

    Hyunseung Choo

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Lim, A., Ma, H., Miao, Z. (2006). Truck Dock Assignment Problem with Time Windows and Capacity Constraint in Transshipment Network Through Crossdocks. In: Gavrilova, M., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006. ICCSA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3982. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11751595_73

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