A Fluid Flow Model for Empty Container Repositioning Policy with a Single Port and Stochastic Demand

DOI10.1137/09075785XMaRDI QIDQ3162602zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Dong-Ping Song, Q. Zhang

Publication date 20 October 2010

Published in SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1137/09075785X

zbMATH Keywords

dynamic programmingempty container repositioningMarkov demand processoptimal controlthreshold policy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamic programming in optimal control and differential games (49L20) Continuous-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces (60J27) Optimal stochastic control (93E20)

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