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The yard crane scheduling problem has been proved to be NP-hard (Bish et al. 2001). As discussed in the earlier chapters in this book, mathematical models can be developed to solve the problem. However, in practice, heuristics are often proposed to solve this optimization problem due to the size and of real-world problems (Sharif and Huynh 2012). This chapter attempts to discuss two underlying concepts for heuristics development for the problem of multiple yard crane scheduling: concurrent and divide and conquer . We then showcase one approach that is based on clustering and reassigning concepts, which applies the divide and conquer approach.
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Li, W., Wu, Y., Goh, M. (2015). Heuristic Approach. In: Planning and Scheduling for Maritime Container Yards. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17025-1_5
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