This paper addresses the design of container liner shipping service networks by explicitly taking into account empty container repositioning. Two key and interrelated issues, those of deploying ships and containers are usually treated separately by most existing studies on shipping network design. In this paper, both issues are considered simultaneously. The problem is formulated as a two-stage...

Container name extraction is very important to the modern container management system.Similar techniques have been suggested for vehicle license plate recognition in past decades.Container name extraction has more complexity from license plate extraction because of the severity of nonuniform illumination and invalidation of color information.The main purpose of this paper is to propose a new me...

A 910MHz high efficiency RF transceiver for Wireless Body Area Network in medical application is presented in this paper. High energy efficiency transmitter and receiver architectures are proposed. In wireless body sensor network, the transmitter must have higher efficiency compared with the receiver because a large amount of data is sent from sensor node to receiver of the base station and sma...

This section contains an overview of the different functional areas of a marine container terminal and a summary of the main types of container handling systems. The main advantages and disadvantages of each type of handling system are also summarized without focusing on technical details. 2.1 Functional Areas of Terminal Operations As every other terminal, a container terminal is a complex sys...

This paper treats a berth allocation problem in dedicated container terminals where feeder ships and container vessels are jointly served. When assigning quay space and a service time to each calling ship particular focus is put on the container exchange between feeder ships and vessels, so that the weighted number of containers delivered by feeder missing their intended vessel is minimized. Th...

Container security systems including electronic seals play an important role in securing container logistics. Nevertheless, a lack of standards prevents devices by different vendors from effective interoperability. Hence, this paper proposes an interdisciplinary perspective incorporating the agent paradigm of computer science. In this approach interaction between different autonomous entities i...

Massively parallel multicomputers require a high-performance interconnection network. The physical channels which connect nodes in the network are the components that most commonly impose restrictions on the amount of data which can be communicated between nodes of the network. Several di erent schemes for maximizing the bandwidth of physical interconnection channels are examined. Conventional ...