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A Barge Sequencing Heuristic

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  • James S. Dyer

    (Graduate School of Business Administration, University of California, Los Angeles, California)

  • Fred Glover

    (Department of Statistics and Computer Sciences, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas)

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This paper describes a heuristic method for sequencing barge unloadings at terminals that have regulated unloading rates or flows with the objective of minimizing the variation of a common constituent in the final combined output. The work was undertaken in response to the desire of a steel manufacturer to minimize the maximum sulfur content in coal entering the coking ovens after being mixed by the simultaneous unloading of barges onto a common conveyor. Although the problem may be given an integer programming formulation, the solution method we propose enables one to obtain optimal or near optimal solutions by hand. A hypothetical problem is solved to illustrate the procedure.

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  • James S. Dyer & Fred Glover, 1970. "A Barge Sequencing Heuristic," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 4(3), pages 281-292, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ortrsc:v:4:y:1970:i:3:p:281-292
    DOI: 10.1287/trsc.4.3.281
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    1. Reinhard Bürgy & Pierre Baptiste & Alain Hertz & Djamal Rebaine & André Linhares, 2018. "A stochastic online algorithm for unloading boxes from a conveyor line," Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, Springer, vol. 30(4), pages 764-784, December.

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