Monotone optimal replacement policies for a Markovian deteriorating system in a controllable environment

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 273-279

  Kurt, Murat ^a   Kharoufeh, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Control limit policy; Environment; Markov decision process; Replacement

Indexed keywords

CONTROL-LIMIT POLICIES; CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT; DETERIORATING SYSTEM; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; MARKOVIAN; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; OPTIMAL POLICIES; OPTIMAL REPLACEMENT POLICY; REPLACEMENT POLICY; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS;

DETERIORATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 77955304450     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orl.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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