Optimally maintaining a Markovian deteriorating system with limited imperfect repairs

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 368-380

  Kurt, Murat ^a   Kharoufeh, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a PA 15260   (United States)

Author keywords

Limited repairs; Markov decision processes; Reliability; Threshold type policy

Indexed keywords

CUMULATIVE NUMBER; DECISION MAKERS; DETERIORATING SYSTEM; DISCOUNTED COSTS; DISCRETE-TIME; IMPERFECT REPAIR; INFINITE HORIZONS; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; MARKOVIAN; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OPTIMAL COST FUNCTION; OPTIMAL POLICIES; OPTIMAL THRESHOLD; PENALTY COST; RELIABILITY THRESHOLD; REPLACEMENT COSTS;

COSTS; DETERIORATION; INSPECTION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION;

REPAIR;

EID: 76949102260     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2010.01.009     Document Type: Article

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