Scheduling shipments in closed-loop sortation conveyors

DOI10.1007/S10951-016-0498-5MaRDI QIDQ1707667zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dirk Briskorn, Simon Emde, Nils Boysen

Publication date 3 April 2018

Published in Journal of Scheduling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10951-016-0498-5

zbMATH Keywords

logisticsschedulingsortation conveyortransshipment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Performance evaluation, queueing, and scheduling in the context of computer systems (68M20) Transportation, logistics and supply chain management (90B06) Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research (90B35)

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