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Containers assembled in fluid and corresponding production

Jürgen Brugger, Alcherio Martinoli, Cristina Martin Olmos, Grégory Mermoud

A method for fabricating a fluid container, wherein at least two half containers are mated in said fluid to be contained in said container. This method allows the incorporation of prefabricated devices into each half containers as well as the functional co ...

2011

Decision Procedures for Program Synthesis and Verification

Ruzica Piskac

Decision procedures are widely used in software development and verification. The goal of this dissertation is to increase the scope of properties that can be verified using decision procedures. To achieve this goal, we identify three improvements over the ...

EPFL2011

Optimization of operations in container terminals: hierarchical vs integrated approaches

Michel Bierlaire, Matteo Salani, Ilaria Vacca

Over the last years, international sea freight container transportation has grown dramatically and container terminals play nowadays a key role within the global shipping network. Terminal's operations have received increasing interest in the scientific li ...

2010

Optimization in container terminals: hierarchical vs integrated solution approaches

Michel Bierlaire, Matteo Salani, Ilaria Vacca

Over the last years, international sea freight container transportation has grown dramatically and container terminals play nowadays a key role within the global shipping network. Terminals operations have received increasing interest in the scientific lit ...

2010

Yard traffic and congestion in container terminals

Michel Bierlaire, Matteo Salani, Ilaria Vacca, Arnaud Vandaele

In container terminals, the yard is the zone where containers are stored: it serves as a buffer for loading, unloading and transshipping containers. Yard is usually the bottleneck of the terminal, as traffic, congestion and capacity issues mainly originate ...

2009

Comprehensive simultaneous shipboard and airborne characterization of exhaust from a modern container ship at sea

Athanasios Nenes

We report the first joint shipboard and airborne study focused on the chemical composition and water-uptake behavior of particulate ship emissions. The study focuses on emissions from the main propulsion engine of a Post-Panamax class container ship cruisi ...

2009

Models and Heuristics for the Tactical Berth Allocation Problem with Quay-Crane Assignment and Transshipment Costs

Matteo Salani, Ilaria Vacca

In the context of international sea-freight container transport, we study an integrated decision problem arising in container terminal management. We consider the integration of the Berth Allocation Problem (BAP), which consists of assigning and scheduling ...

2009

Models and Heuristics for the Tactical Berth Allocation Problem with Quay-Crane Assignment and Transshipment Costs

Matteo Salani, Ilaria Vacca

2009

Efficient oxygen transfer by surface aeration in shaken cylindrical containers for mammalian cell cultivation at volumetric scales up to 1,000 liters

Alfio Quarteroni, Florian Maria Wurm, David Hacker, Xiuwei Zhang, Nicola Parolini, Mathieu Benjamin Stettler, Marco Perrone, Dario De Sanctis

Cylindrical containers agitated by orbital shaking are being developed as simple and cost-effective bioreactor systems for the cultivation of mammalian cells. Here the oxygen transfer capacities of containers with nominal volumes from 50 mL to 2000 L were ...

2009

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