Title
A flexible job shop scheduling approach with operators for coal export terminals – A mature approach
Abstract
•A mature approach for scheduling and resourcing activities of coal export terminals is proposed.•Blending, dual reclaiming, de-ballasting delays, and through loading are focussed upon.•An improved meta-heuristic algorithm is introduced•The meta-heuristic has improved resource chromosome and perturbation techniques for pre-emption handling.•A comprehensive suite of test problems is solved to demonstrate the efficacy of the approach
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.cor.2019.104834
Computers & Operations Research
Keywords
Field
DocType
Coal export terminals,Scheduling,Flexible job shop with operators,Pre-emption,Meta-heuristics,Integer partitioning with restriction,De-ballasting,Dual reclaiming,Blending
Mathematical optimization,Job shop scheduling,Suite,Scheduling (computing),Concurrency,Resource assignment,Operator (computer programming),Coal,Mathematics,Metaheuristic,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
115
C
0305-0548
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Robert L. Burdett1558.30
Paul Corry2576.08
Colin Eustace300.34
Simon R Smith4172.94