[SEEM5202 Seminar Announcement] (Friday, January 23, 2015, 11:00am - 12:30pm)

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                 Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
                              The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Date: Friday, 11:00am - 12:30pm, January 23, 2015

Title: Design, Analysis, and Real-Time Management of Seaport Container Transshipment Terminals

Speaker: Matthew Petering, Associate Professor of Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee

Abstract:
Modeling the operations of seaport container terminals remains a popular research topic within today’s operations research community.  Yet, there are few published papers that show how various options for terminal design, tactical planning, and/or real-time decision making affect the overall, long-run productivity of a container terminal that never closes.  This seminar begins with a brief overview of Dr. Petering’s published work in this area which has considered problems concerning terminal layout, equipment deployment, real-time yard crane job assignment, and real-time yard truck job assignment.

The remainder of the seminar is devoted to the problem of real-time container storage location assignment.  The main challenge here is to (1) develop a comprehensive, real-time system for automatically making container storage location decisions at the individual container level as containers arrive at the terminal and (2) determine the parameter values for this system that maximize overall productivity at a multiple berth container terminal.

Biography:
Dr. Matthew Petering is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee.  His published research has analyzed the operations of seaport container terminals, passenger railway systems, material handling systems, and health care systems using three methodologies: deterministic optimization, applied probability, and discrete event simulation (DES).  He has achieved HSK level 4 proficiency in Mandarin Chinese.  His experience includes visits to more than 20 seaport container terminals on five continents and a research position at the National University of Singapore.  He received his PhD from the University of Michigan under the guidance of Katta Murty in 2007.

Everyone is welcome to attend the talk!

Venue: Room 513,
       William M.W. Mong Engineering Building (ERB),
       (Engineering Building Complex Phase 2)
       The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

The talk will be hosted by:
Prof. Janny Leung,
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
E-mail: janny@se.cuhk.edu.hk
Homepage: http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/people/janny.html

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