Optimal average cost manufacturing flow controllers: Convexity and differentiability

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 779-783

  Veatch, Michael H ^a   Caramanis, Michael C ^b  

^a GORDON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

AVERAGE COST MINIMIZATION; MANUFACTURING FLOW CONTROL;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 0032663666     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/9.754817     Document Type: Article

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