Using a pseudo-stochastic approach for multiple-parts scheduling on an unreliable machine

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 189-199

  Herbon, Avi ^a   Khmelnitsky, Eugene ^b   Ben Gal, Irad ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); MACHINE COMPONENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; REPAIR; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; VECTORS;

MULIPLE PARTS SCHEDULING; OPTIMAL SCHEDULING; UNRELIABLE MACHINE;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 14044254124     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170590899599     Document Type: Article

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