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SUMMARY:Models and New Methods for Quayside Operations in Port Container T
 erminals
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Jiang Hang Chen\, National University of Singapore\nMr. Chen J
 iang Hang obtained B.Eng from the Department of Civil Engineering\, Tsingh
 ua University\, PR China in 2007 and received his PhD from the Department 
 of Civil and Environmental Engineering\, National University of Singapore 
 in 2012. Currently\, he is a research engineer at The Logistics Institute 
 - Asia Pacific\, National University of Singapore. His PhD research topic 
 focuses on port container terminal operation management especially for the
  quayside operation problem which includes the berth allocation problem\, 
 the quay crane assignment problem\, and the quay crane scheduling problem.
 \nThe swift pace of globalization has significantly increased the demand f
 or containerized maritime transport services. Under the atmosphere\, the c
 ompetition among port container terminals has become acute and such drives
  the managers in port container terminals to maintain seamless flows of co
 ntainers through terminals while to keep the operational costs as low as p
 ossible. To this end\, operational research methods have received consider
 able importance for the operations management in port container terminals.
  This seminar will cover Mr. Chen's studies on quayside operation problem 
 in port container terminal including both mathematical modeling and algori
 thm development. Firstly\, for mathematical modeling\, there are two highl
 ights in Mr. Chen's studies: 1) the technology updates and innovative impl
 ementations have been reflected\; 2) the integration issues to synchronize
  the decision-making processes for each key component of the quayside oper
 ation problem have been stressed. Secondly\, for problem solving\, a spect
 rum of methods has been devised to handle the proposed models. In this sem
 inar\, Mr. Chen will also introduce the problem-oriented meta-heuristics\,
  approximation algorithms\, and exact algorithms (like Benders' Cut Method
 ) developed for the quayside operation problem.
LOCATION:GC B3 30 http://plan.epfl.ch/?room=GC%20B3%2030
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