This paper elaborates the different operations research methods used to solve container terminal operational decisions including terminal design, berth allocation, quay crane assignment, quay crane scheduling, container storage space allocation, container location assignment, retrieval, and premarshalling, as well as resource scheduling and terminal logistics in general. Solution methods includ...

There has been an increase in the study of discrete simulation projects; however, literature lacks the topic of effectively managing these projects. Therefore, in this research, some principles from project management were applied in a discrete event simulation project. The action research method was used to implement the study. The ten knowledge areas from PMBOK®'s (2013) project management th...

Decision making inside a company is usually performed by means of decision support tools at three different levels (strategic, tactical and operational) according to the working horizon. Unfortunately, the consequences of any decision at the strategic level are propagated to the tactical and even the operational levels. In order to support highly efficient flexibility while avoiding infrastruct...

Efficient management of events lists is important in optimizing discrete event simulation performance. This is especially true in distributed simulation systems. The performance of simulators is directly dependent on the event list management operations such as insertion, deletion, and search. Several factors such as scheduling, checkpointing, and state management influence the organization of ...

In project scheduling, many problems can arise when resource fluctuations are beyond acceptable limits. To overcome this, mathematical techniques have been developed for leveling resources. However, these produce a hard and inflexible approach in scheduling projects. The authors propose a simple resource leveling approach that can be used in scheduling projects with multi-mode execution activit...

Managing the development of large-scale software systems is a challenge to all software project managers due to the ever-increasing complexity inherent in the software development life cycle. In this paper, a formalism intended to capture the concurrent and iterative nature of software development, called Software Project Management Net (SPMNet), is proposed to model software development projec...

Numerous research groups in universities, research labs, and industries around the world are now working on Computational Grids or simply Grids that enable aggregation of distributed resources for solving largescale data intensive problems in science, engineering, and commerce. Several institutions and universities already started research and teaching programs on Grid computing as part of thei...