Perturbation analysis for production control and optimization of manufacturing systems

Automatica

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 945-956

  Yu, Haining ^a   Cassandras, Christos G ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Manufacturing system; Performance optimization; Perturbation analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBLEM SOLVING; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; THEOREM PROVING;

MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION; PERTURBATION ANALYSIS;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 2042436400     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2004.02.001     Document Type: Article

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