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A problem with the main engine on Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft will keep it from delivering 11,000 pounds of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station as scheduled on ...

Introduction: Container relocation in port yards represents a canonical NP-hard problem, characterized by high-dimensional nonlinear constraints and stringent real-time decision-making requirements.

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