Modeling a Lot-Aware Slab Stack Shuffling Problem

Judith Fechter, Andreas Beham, Stefan Wagner, Michael Affenzeller

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Abstract

Stacking and shuffling problems are key logistics problems in various areas such as container shipping or steel industry. The aim of this paper is motivated by a real world instance arised in steel production. Slabs, continously but randomly casted, need to be arranged for transport while having a certain number of buffer stacks available. The optimization problem arising is assigning transport lotnumbers, regarding properties of slabs, as well as minimizing shuffling movements while arranging the slabs, regarding the implicitly given transport order. For that purpose, a combined optimization problem, being composed of two sub-problems is developed. Further computational studies are conducted in order to investigate the complexity of the problem. A combined solution approach is developed solving the problem in a sequential way using customized algorithms in order to make advantage of specialised algorithms.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Aided Systems Theory – EUROCAST 2015. 15th International Conference, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, February 8-13, 2015, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsFranz Pichler, Roberto Moreno-Díaz, Alexis Quesada-Arencibia
PublisherSpringer
Pages334-341
Number of pages8
Volume9520
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-27339-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9520
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Fields of science

  • 102 Computer Sciences
  • 603109 Logic
  • 202006 Computer hardware

JKU Focus areas

  • Computation in Informatics and Mathematics

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