Average-cost control of stochastic manufacturing systems.

DOI10.1007/0-387-27615-7zbMath1078.93004MaRDI QIDQ1780008

Suresh P. Sethi, Qing Zhang, Han-Qin Zhang

Publication date: 6 June 2005

Published in: Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-27615-7

zbMATH Keywords

Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation; error estimates; reliability; Markov chains; stochastic optimal control; parallel machines; convergence rate; long-run average cost; verification theorem; risk sensitive control; repairs; breakdowns; near-optimal policies; dynamic flowshop; optimal control of manufacturing systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

90B22: Queues and service in operations research

90B25: Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection in operations research

90B30: Production models

93C95: Application models in control theory

93A13: Hierarchical systems

93C70: Time-scale analysis and singular perturbations in control/observation systems

90B36: Stochastic scheduling theory in operations research

93-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to systems and control theory

93E20: Optimal stochastic control

60K15: Markov renewal processes, semi-Markov processes

60K20: Applications of Markov renewal processes (reliability, queueing networks, etc.)

49J55: Existence of optimal solutions to problems involving randomness

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