Optimal inventory policy involving ordering cost reduction, back-order discounts, and variable lead time demand by minimax criterion.
Optimal investment strategies for renewable facilities.
Optimal Location of Production Centers Interconnected Materials and Products Allocation
Optimal lot size determination of multistage production system
This paper deals with the optimization of total setup plus inventory cost of a certain class of the multistage inventory-production systems with the series arranged production stages having generally different production rates, separated by stores from each other. The optimization is made by the choice of lot sizes across an infinite time horizon. The exact cost-optimization algorithm based on the Bellman optimality principle is derived and applied for deriving two lower bounds of the optimal cost...
Optimal networks for mass transportation problems
In the framework of transport theory, we are interested in the following optimization problem: given the distributions of working people and of their working places in an urban area, build a transportation network (such as a railway or an underground system) which minimizes a functional depending on the geometry of the network through a particular cost function. The functional is defined as the Wasserstein distance of from with respect to a metric which depends on the transportation network....
Optimal networks for mass transportation problems
In the framework of transport theory, we are interested in the following optimization problem: given the distributions µ+ of working people and µ- of their working places in an urban area, build a transportation network (such as a railway or an underground system) which minimizes a functional depending on the geometry of the network through a particular cost function. The functional is defined as the Wasserstein distance of µ+ from µ- with respect to a metric which depends on the transportation...
Optimal placement of electrodes in an electroporation process
Electroporation consists in increasing the permeability of a tissue by applying high voltage pulses. In this paper we discuss the question of optimal placement and optimal loading of electrodes such that electroporation holds only in a given open set of the domain. The electroporated set of the domain is where the norm of the electric field is above a given threshold value. We use a standard gradient algorithm to optimize the loading of the electrodes...
Optimal policies for a database system with two backup schemes
This paper considers two backup schemes for a database system: a database is updated at a nonhomogeneous Poisson process and an amount of updated files accumulates additively. To ensure the safety of data, full backups are performed at time or when the total updated files have exceeded a threshold level , and between them, cumulative backups as one of incremental backups are made at periodic times
Optimal Policies for a Database System with Two Backup Schemes
This paper considers two backup schemes for a database system: a database is updated at a nonhomogeneous Poisson process and an amount of updated files accumulates additively. To ensure the safety of data, full backups are performed at time NT or when the total updated files have exceeded a threshold level K, and between them, cumulative backups as one of incremental backups are made at periodic times iT(i = 1,2,...,N - 1). Using the theory of cumulative processes, the expected cost is obtained,...
Optimal Pricing and Lot-Sizing Decisions Under Weibull Distribution Deterioration and Trade Credit Policy
Optimal pricing and production master planning in a multiperiod horizon considering capacity and inventory constraints.
Optimal QoS control of interacting service stations
We consider a system of three queues and two types of packets. Each packet arriving at this system finds in front of it a controller who either sends it in the first queue or rejects it according to a QoS criterion. When the packet finishes its service in the first queue, it is probabilistically routed to one of two other parallel queues. The objective is to minimize a QoS discounted cost over an infinite horizon. The cost function is composed of a waiting cost per packet in each queue and a rejection...
Optimal QoS control of interacting service stations
We consider a system of three queues and two types of packets. Each packet arriving at this system finds in front of it a controller who either sends it in the first queue or rejects it according to a QoS criterion. When the packet finishes its service in the first queue, it is probabilistically routed to one of two other parallel queues. The objective is to minimize a QoS discounted cost over an infinite horizon. The cost function is composed of a waiting cost per packet in each queue and a rejection...
Optimal replacement policies for a two-unit system with failure interactions
Optimal replacement policy for a deteriorating production system
Optimal replacement rule-discounted cost criterion
Optimal replacement under additive damage and self-restoration
Optimal resource allocation in stochastic activity networks via the electromagnetism approach: a platform implementation in Java
Optimal scheduling of material handling devices in a PCB production line: problem formulation and a polynomial algorithm.
Optimal scheduling of the -machine assembly-type flow shop