Effective information horizon length in measuring off-line performance of stochastic dynamic systems

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 688-703

  Herbon, Avi ^a,b   Khmelnitsky, Eugene ^b   Maimon, Oded ^b  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Feedback control; Information horizon; Stochastic modeling

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK CONTROL; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INVENTORY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION HORIZON; MANAGEMENT POLICY; RESOURCE CONSUMING; STOCHASTIC MODELING;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 2342647487     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(03)00268-6     Document Type: Article

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