The reliability of an element with alternating failure rate
This work concerns a discrete-time Markov chain with time-invariant transition mechanism and denumerable state space, which is endowed with a nonnegative cost function with finite support. The performance of the chain is measured by the (long-run) risk-sensitive average cost and, assuming that the state space is communicating, the existence of a solution to the risk-sensitive Poisson equation is established, a result that holds even for transient chains. Also, a sufficient criterion ensuring that...
To find nonlinear minimization problems are considered and standard -regularity assumptions on the criterion function and constrained functions are reduced to -regularity. With the aid of the generalized second order directional derivative for real-valued functions, a new second order necessary optimality condition and a new second order sufficient optimality condition for these problems are derived.
This paper proposes a specialized LP-algorithm for a sub problem arising in simple Profit maximising Lot-sizing. The setting involves a single (and multi) item production system with negligible set-up costs/times and limited production capacity. The producer faces a monopolistic market with given time-varying linear demand curves.
Let be a real Hilbert space, a convex function of class that we wish to minimize under the convex constraint . A classical approach consists in following the trajectories of the generalized steepest descent system (cf. Brézis [5]) applied to the non-smooth function . Following Antipin [1], it is also possible to use a continuous gradient-projection system. We propose here an alternative method as follows: given a smooth convex function whose critical points coincide with and a control...
Let H be a real Hilbert space, a convex function of class that we wish to minimize under the convex constraint S. A classical approach consists in following the trajectories of the generalized steepest descent system (cf. Brézis [CITE]) applied to the non-smooth function . Following Antipin [1], it is also possible to use a continuous gradient-projection system. We propose here an alternative method as follows: given a smooth convex function whose critical points coincide with S and...