Integrating simulation and optimization to schedule loading operations in container terminals

Authors:
Qingcheng Zeng;Zhongzhen Yang
Affiliations:
Transport Management College, Dalian Maritime University, 1#, Linghai Road, Dalian, Liaoning 116026, China;Transport Management College, Dalian Maritime University, 1#, Linghai Road, Dalian, Liaoning 116026, China
Venue:
Computers and Operations Research
Year:
2009

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Abstract

In this paper, a simulation optimization method for scheduling loading operations in container terminals is developed. The method integrates the intelligent decision mechanism of optimization algorithm and evaluation function of simulation model, its procedures are: initializing container sequence according to certain dispatching rule, then improving the sequence through genetic algorithm, using simulation model to evaluate objective function of a given scheduling scheme. Meanwhile, a surrogate model based on neural network is designed to predict objective function and filter out potentially bad solutions, thus to decrease the times of running simulation model. Numerical tests show that simulation optimization method can solve the scheduling problem of container terminals efficiently. And the surrogate model can improve the computation efficiency of simulation optimization.