On the optimality of myopic production controls for single-server, continuous-flow manufacturing systems

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1269-1273

  Martinelli, Francesco ^a   Shu, Chang ^b   Perkins, James R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Manufacturing systems; Myopic production control; Scheduling policies

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; SCHEDULING;

MYOPIC PRODUCTION CONTROLS;

OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035417556     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/9.940932     Document Type: Article

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