Journal of Computational Physics
WSC '95 Proceedings of the 27th conference on Winter simulation
Journal of Global Optimization
The Best Shape for a Crossdock
Transportation Science
Vehicle routing scheduling for cross-docking in the supply chain
Computers and Industrial Engineering - Special issue: Logistics and supply chain management
A dock-door assignment problem for the Korean mail distribution center
Computers and Industrial Engineering - Special issue: Logistics and supply chain management
Positioning of goods in a cross-docking environment
Computers and Industrial Engineering
On heuristics as a fundamental constituent of soft computing
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Genetic-based scheduling to solve the parcel hub scheduling problem
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Truck scheduling at zero-inventory cross docking terminals
Computers and Operations Research
The parcel hub scheduling problem: A simulation-based solution approach
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Multiple crossdocks with inventory and time windows
Computers and Operations Research
Scheduling trucks in cross-docking systems: Robust meta-heuristics
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Ant colony optimization algorithm to solve for the transportation problem of cross-docking network
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Iterative improvement to solve the parcel hub scheduling problem
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Two hybrid differential evolution algorithms for engineering design optimization
Applied Soft Computing
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Scheduling cross docking operations under full, partial and no information on inbound arrivals
Computers and Operations Research
Solving economic emission load dispatch problems using hybrid differential evolution
Applied Soft Computing
Multi-objective genetic-based algorithms for a cross-docking scheduling problem
Applied Soft Computing
No free lunch theorems for optimization
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
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This paper studies inbound and outbound truck sequencing for cross docking operations with the objective to minimize total operation time (a.k.a. makespan) or equivalently to maximize the throughput of a cross docking system. Specifically, two major contributions are made: (i) designing two new hybrid differential evolution algorithms with better performance than the pure differential evolution algorithm that was reported to have the best performance in a recent comparative study of several metaheuristic algorithms, i.e., Arabani et al., and (ii) proposing a more realistic and efficient operational policy that leads to shorter makespan than that developed by Yu and Egbelu. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithms and policy are shown based on the results of testing 30 problems and several other related issues are also investigated and discussed.