Summary
Operational planning in a general purpose ship terminal is treated. The decisions to be taken concern the weekly manpower capacity and the assignment of manpower and equipment to ships. As a Markov decision problem the model is very big and aggregation is desirable. As a check simulation is used, which leads to an iterative aggregation-disaggregation approach.
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Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der operativen Planung für ein Schiffterminal für Stückgut. Wöchentlich muß über die anzuwerbenden Arbeitskräfte, täglich über deren Zuordnung zu Ladekapazitäten entschieden werden. Dieses Problem wird durch ein Markoffsches Entscheidungsmodell abgebildet. Dessen Größe zwingt zur Aggregation, die mit Hilfe der Simulation überprüft wird.
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Lenssen, M.J.G., van der Wal, J., Wessels, J. (1983). Markov Decision Processes and Ship Handling: An Exercise in Aggregation. In: Bühler, W., Fleischmann, B., Schuster, KP., Streitferdt, L., Zander, H. (eds) DGOR Papers of the 11th Annual Meeting Vorträge der 11. Jahrestagung. Operations Research Proceedings, vol 1982. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68997-0_83
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