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Dispatching Automated Guided Vehicles in a Container Terminal

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Supply Chain Optimization

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  1. Singapore MIT Alliance Program, Singapore

    Yong-Leong Cheng & Hock-Chan Sen

  2. Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Karthik Natarajan

  3. SKK Graduate School of Business, Sungkyunkwan University, Singapore

    Chung-Piaw Teo

  4. Department of Decision Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Chung-Piaw Teo

  5. PSA Corporation, Singapore

    Kok-Choon Tan

  6. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Kok-Choon Tan

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Cheng, YL., Sen, HC., Natarajan, K., Teo, CP., Tan, KC. (2005). Dispatching Automated Guided Vehicles in a Container Terminal. In: Geunes, J., Pardalos, P.M. (eds) Supply Chain Optimization. Applied Optimization, vol 98. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-26281-4_11

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