Liao, T.W.; Egbelu, P.J.; Chang, P.C. - In: International Journal of Production Economics 141 (2013) 1, pp. 212-229
This paper studies the simultaneous dock assignment and sequencing of inbound trucks for a multi-door cross docking … weighted tardiness associated with any given inbound-truck sequence and dock assignment, an operational policy is developed …. This policy is employed by every metaheuristic algorithm in searching for the optimal dock assignment and sequence. Each …