Displaying similar documents to “Conditions for lumping the grades of a hierarchical manpower system”

Technical comment. A problem on Markov chains

Franco Giannessi (2002)

RAIRO - Operations Research - Recherche Opérationnelle

Similarity:

A problem (arisen from applications to networks) is posed about the principal minors of the matrix of transition probabilities of a Markov chain.

Estimates for perturbations of discounted Markov chains on general spaces

Raúl Montes-de-Oca, Alexander Sakhanenko, Francisco Salem-Silva (2003)

Applicationes Mathematicae

Similarity:

We analyse a Markov chain and perturbations of the transition probability and the one-step cost function (possibly unbounded) defined on it. Under certain conditions, of Lyapunov and Harris type, we obtain new estimates of the effects of such perturbations via an index of perturbations, defined as the difference of the total expected discounted costs between the original Markov chain and the perturbed one. We provide an example which illustrates our analysis.

Simple Markov chains

O. Adelman (1976)

Annales scientifiques de l'Université de Clermont. Mathématiques

Similarity:

On the exchanges between Wolfgang Doeblin and Bohuslav Hostinský

Laurent Mazliak (2007)

Revue d'histoire des mathématiques

Similarity:

We present the letters sent by Wolfgang Doeblin to Bohuslav Hostinský between 1936 and 1938. They concern some aspects of the general theory of Markov chains and the solutions of the Chapman-Kolmogorov equation that Doeblin was then establishing for his PhD thesis.

Some ideas for comparison of Bellman chains

Laurent Truffet (2003)

Kybernetika

Similarity:

In this paper we are exploiting some similarities between Markov and Bellman processes and we introduce the main concepts of the paper: comparison of performance measures, and monotonicity of Bellman chains. These concepts are used to establish the main result of this paper dealing with comparison of Bellman chains.