Solutions To Storage Spaces Allocation Problem for Import Containers by Exact and Heuristic Methods

Authors

  • Laidy De Armas Jacomino Universidad de Ciego de Ávila Máximo Gómez Báez
  • Danilo Valdes Universidad de Ciego de Ávila Máximo Gómez Báez
  • Carlos Morell Universidad Central ”Marta Abreu” de Las Villas, Centro de Investigaciones de Informática, Villa Clara
  • Rafael Bello Universidad Central ”Marta Abreu” de Las Villas, Centro de Investigaciones de Informática, Villa Clara

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13053/cys-23-1-2916

Keywords:

Containers yard management, containers yard operation, generalized assignment problem, storage space allocation problem

Abstract

Maritime transport carries out most of the world's commercial activities. One of the elements used for maritime transportation is the container. Before moving to or from a country, containers are stacked in a container terminal, also called container yard. Container terminals perform multiple and complex operations daily. Scientific community pays attention to the container stacking operations in the yard area due to its complexity and relevance in the international commerce. In this work, we solve the problem of optimizing the storage spaces allocation to imported containers by the linear mixed integer programming method. The objective of this work is to solve storage space allocation problem for imported containers, in an acceptable computational time. We use an exact optimization method for the operations of a real container yard. We model this optimization problem mathematically as a generalized assignment problem. We present the mathematical formulation, its solution, as well as the computational experiments.

Author Biography

Laidy De Armas Jacomino, Universidad de Ciego de Ávila Máximo Gómez Báez

Profesora Intructora Facultad de Ciencias Informáticas y exactas

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Published

2019-03-24

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 1 (2019): Recent Advances in Optics and Photonics (Guest Editors: J. J. Sánchez Mondragón, M. Torres Cisneros, R. Guzmán Cabrera)

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