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  title info:
    title: Optimizing Liner Shipping Fleet Repositioning Plans
  name:
    name part: Tierney, Kevin.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 182 p. 49 illus., 20 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This monograph addresses several critical problems to the operations of shipping lines and ports, and provides algorithms and mathematical models for use by shipping lines and port authorities for decision support. One of these problems is the repositioning of container ships in a liner shipping network in order to adjust the network to seasonal shifts in demand or changes in the world economy. We provide the first problem description and mathematical model of repositioning and define the liner shipping fleet repositioning problem (LSFRP). The LSFRP is characterized by chains of interacting activities with a multi-commodity flow over paths defined by the activities chosen. We first model the problem without cargo flows with a variety of well-known optimization techniques, as well as using a novel method called linear temporal optimization planning that combines linear programming with partial-order planning in a branch-and-bound framework. We then model the LSFRP with cargo flows, using several different mathematical models as well as two heuristic approaches. We evaluate our techniques on a real-world dataset that includes a scenario from our industrial collaborator. We show that our approaches scale to the size of problems faced by industry, and are also able to improve the profit on the reference scenario by over US$14 million.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Containerized Shipping -- Liner Shipping Fleet Repositioning -- Methodological Background -- Liner Shipping Fleet Repositioning without Cargo -- Liner Shipping Fleet Repositioning with Cargo -- Conclusion.
  note: by Kevin Tierney.
  subject:
    topic: Business
  subject:
    topic: Production management
  subject:
    topic: Operations research
  subject:
    topic: Decision making
  subject:
    topic: International economics
  subject:
    topic: Business and Management
  subject:
    topic: Operation Research/Decision Theory
  subject:
    topic: Operations Management
  subject:
    topic: International Economics
  classification: HD30.23
  classification: 658.40301
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series, 57
  identifier: 9783319176659
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17665-9
  record info:
    record creation date: 150616
    record change date: 20151204153807.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-17665-9