The limited jetty capacity of ports causes costly ship delays, particularly for large ocean-going vessels. Terminal operators attempt to reduce ship delays both in number and duration but have to take the number of jetties and their functionality and layout as a fact. Ships can arrive according to a schedule, for example based on stock levels, or unscheduled, or even uncontrolled which is the c...

Planning and scheduling are activities of major economic importance. Among various planning and scheduling problems, this paper focuses on the scheduling of crude oil and petroleum derivatives in ports: the jetty scheduling problem. The problem has combinatorial (allocation, sorting) and nonlinear (product blending) aspects, and multi-objective goals (minimization of different costs). We consid...

Abstract Optimization theory is applied to a coastal engineering problem that the design of port. This approach was redesign La Turballe Port in order increase exploitable surface area and simultaneously reduce occurrence long waves within Having defined cost function as weighted wave amplitude with chosen parameterization port, results show an extended jetty widened mole yield unique optimal s...

This paper suggests a revisitation of the New Games Movement, formed by Stewart Brand and others in the early 1970s in the United States as a response to the Vietnam War, against a backdrop of dramatic social and economic change, fueled by a looming energy crisis, civil rights, feminism, and unhealthy widespread drug abuse. Like-minded contemporaries, R. Buckminster Fuller (World Game), Robert ...