Saturday, November 20, 2010

HERE IS AN OUTLINE OF THE SAME PIECE OF WRITING

On the optimal container size in automated warehouses
Y. Roll, M.J. Rosenblatt and D. Kadosh, Proceedings of the Ninth ICPR
1. Forecasts of increasing rate of AR/RS introduction [1]
2. Storage assignment/interleaving policies (Hausman, Schwarz, Graves [6,7])
3. Comparison of algorithms for handling orders (Elsayed [3], Elsayed & Stern [4])
4. Design of AS/RS & determination of throughput (Karasawa et al. [9], Azadivar [2], Parry et al. [11])
5. Optimal handling unit (Steudel [13], Tanchoco & Agee [14])
a. with pallet size/unit load (Tanchoco et al. [15], Grasso & Tanchoco [5])
b. “best-size” gives savings (Normandin [10])
c. simulation model (Kadosh [8])
d. stochastic flow (Kadosh [8], Rosenblatt and Roll [12])
6. Summary of previous research: “container size was found to affect strongly overall warehousing costs.”
7. Present research: “an analytical framework for approximating the optimal size of a warehouse container.”
From this outline, it is clear that the writers are organizing their information around ideas (in this case research) not around the researchers. This enables them to focus on the research itself, to show how different research is related, and how it all relates to their own research.

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