Author | Sethi, Suresh P. author |
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Title | Hierarchical Decision Making in Stochastic Manufacturing Systems [electronic resource] / by Suresh P. Sethi, Qing Zhang |
Imprint | Boston, MA : Birkhรคuser Boston : Imprint: Birkhรคuser, 1994 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0285-1 |
Descript | XVI, 422 p. online resource |
I. Introduction and Models of Manufacturing Systems -- 1. Concepts of hierarchical decision making -- 2. Models of manufacturing systems -- II. Optimal Control of Manufacturing Systems: Existence and Characterization -- 3. Optimal control of parallel machine systems -- 4. Optimal control of dynamic flowshops -- 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 setup scheduling in a single machine system -- 9. Hierarchical feedback controls in two-machine flowshops -- IV: Multilevel Hierarchical Decisions -- 10. A production and capacity expansion model -- 11. Production-marketing systems -- V: Computations and Conclusions -- 12. Computations and evaluation of hierarchical controls -- 13. Further extensions and open research problems -- 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 -- Author index -- Copyright permissions