Hierarchical decision making in stochastic manufacturing systems /
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| Author / Creator: | Sethi, Suresh P. |
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| Imprint: | Boston : Birkhàˆuser, c1994. |
| Description: | xvi, 419 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Systems & control |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1719037 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Introduction and Models of Manufacturing Systems. 1. Concepts of hierarchical decision making. 2. Models of manufacturing systems
- Pt. II. Optimal Control of Manufacturing Systems: Existence and Characterization. 3. Optimal control of parallel machine systems. 4. Optimal control of dynamic flowshops
- Pt. III. Asymptotic Optimal Controls. 5. Hierarchical controls in systems with parallel machines. 6. Hierarchical controls in dynamic flowshops. 7. Hierarchical controls in dynamic jobshops. 8. Hierarchical production and set up scheduling in a single machine system. 9. Hierarchical feedback controls in two-machine flowshops
- Pt. IV. Multilevel Hierarchical Decisions. 10. A production and capacity expansion model. 11. Production-marketing systems
- Pt. V. Computations and Conclusions. 12. Computations and evaluation of hierarchical controls. 13. Further extensions and open research problems. Pt. VI. Appendices. A. Finite state Markov chains. B. Martingale problems, tightness, and Skorohod representation. C. Rate of convergence of Markov chains. D. Control-dependent Markov chains. E. Convergence of Markov chains with two parameters. F. Convex functions. G. Viscosity solutions of HJB equations. H. Value functions and optimal controls. I. A review of relevant graph theory. J. Miscellany.