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Vehicle Scheduling in Port Automation
Many people helped us in various ways in the preparation of this book. First of all, we are grateful to Dr. John Ford, from the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex, for his suggestion that we develop the dynamic network simplex algorithm and his comments on this research. We thank Professor Hu, the head of the Robotics Research Group at the University of Essex, who proposed a few suggestions on our software. We thank the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering for the harmonious environment and the University of Essex for the excellent computer facilities that enabled us to perform the computational experiments reported here. We also thank Professor Sanja Petrovic, from the School of Computer Science and IT at the University of Nottingham, for giving us some valuable comments. We thank Professor Klaus McDonald-Maier, from the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex, for his feedback. We thank Demi Stevens, from the Copywriting Company in the United Kingdom, for many helpful remarks and for proofreading the first edition of this book. Above all, our greatest thanks go to our families, for their patience, encouragement, and support while we were working on this book.