Optimal repair of degrading computers under asymmetric information and incentive incompatibility

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 719-728

  Cheng, Hsing K ^a   Freimer, Marshall ^b   Richmond, William B ^c   Sumita, Ushio ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c Perot Systems Corporation   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Optimal repair of computer system; Resource allocation; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; REPAIR; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION; INCENTIVE INCOMPATIBILITY;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032166968     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(98)00007-0     Document Type: Article

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