State Re-union Maintainability for Semi-Markov Models in Manpower Planning

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Authors: Brecht Verbeken, Marie-Anne Guerry 

Abstract: In previous research the importance of both Markov and semi-Markov models in manpower planning is highlighted. Maintainability of population structures for different types of personnel strategies (i.e. under control by promotion and control by recruitment) were extensively investigated for various types of Markov models (homogeneous as well as non-homogeneous). Semi-Markov models are extensions of Markov models that account for duration of stay in the states. Less attention is paid to the study of maintainability for semi-Markov models. Although, some interesting maintainability results were obtained for non-homogeneous semi-Markov models. The current paper focuses on discrete-time homogeneous semi-Markov models, and explores the concept of maintainable population structures in this setting. In particular, a new concept of maintainability is introduced, the so-called State Reunion maintainability. It is shown that this concept of maintainability is closely related to maintainability for non-homogeneous Markov chains.

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