Maritime terminals need more efficiency in their handling operations due to the phenomenal evolution of world container traffic, and to the increase of the container ship capacity. In this work, we ...

The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 52, No. 5 (May, 2001), pp. 567-575 (9 pages) Several preprocessing rules to reduce integer programming problem size are proposed and examined for ...

The majority of recent empirical papers in operations management (OM) employ observational data to investigate the causal effects of a treatment, such as program or policy adoption. However, as ...

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The joint replenishment problem (JRP) presents a complex optimisation challenge where the objective is to determine coordinated ordering policies for multiple items, thereby minimising total costs ...