A Time-dependent Stopping Problem with Application to Live Organ Transplants

DOI10.1287/opre.33.3.491zbMath0567.90062DBLPjournals/ior/DavidY85OpenAlexW2131499798WikidataQ50161592 ScholiaQ50161592MaRDI QIDQ3683890

Uri Yechiali, Israel David

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.33.3.491

zbMATH Keywords

control-limit type policyGamma distributed lifetimelive organ transplantsnonhomogeneous Poisson arrivalstime-dependent stopping problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimal stochastic control (93E20) Stopping times; optimal stopping problems; gambling theory (60G40) Operations research and management science (90B99) Applications of Markov renewal processes (reliability, queueing networks, etc.) (60K20)

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