Optimal feedback control scheme helping managers to adjust aggregate industrial resources

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 555-563

  Silva Fo, O S ^a   Ventura, S D ^a  

^a Mail Box: 6162   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Hierarchical structure; Inventory control; Optimization problem; Production systems; Suboptimal control

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK CONTROL; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING; PRODUCTION; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM; PRODUCTION SYSTEMS; SUBOPTIMAL CONTROL;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 0032656527     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0661(98)00195-6     Document Type: Article

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