Paper Info
Title
A three-level hierarchical workload management scheme for yard cranes in container terminals
Abstract
We propose a three-level, hierarchical scheme for yard crane (YC) workload management in container terminals. Level 1 distributes YCs among different rows in the storage yard at suitable times based on predicted future workload. This is done a few times during a shift of 8 hours. Level 2 dispatches YCs to work in various non-overlapping working zones in each row for the time window in between two rounds of YC re-distributions at Level 1. Level 3 determines the serving sequences of vehicle jobs for an YC in a working zone over a period of time (e.g., a sub-planning window). The algorithms for levels 2 and 3 have been published elsewhere. This paper proposes the proportional distribution and the uniform distribution strategies for YC deployment at level 1. We compare the performance of the three-level hierarchical scheme in terms of average job waiting times and the average number of overflow jobs at the end of each planning window under the two distribution strategies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-24264-9_17
ICCL
Keywords
Field
DocType
uniform distribution strategy,average job,distribution strategy,container terminal,proportional distribution,time window,yc deployment,yc re-distributions,planning window,sub-planning window,average number,yard crane,three-level hierarchical workload management
Row,Software deployment,Computer science,Workload,Uniform distribution (continuous),Yard,Real-time computing,Workload management
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6971
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
15
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shell Ying Huang116119.52
Xi Guo2595.95
Mei Mei Lau300.34