Structured maintenance policies on interior sample paths |
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| Authors: | Lisa M Maillart Ludmila Zheltova |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaDepartment of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;2. Department of Operations, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio |
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| Abstract: | We examine the problem of adaptively scheduling perfect observations and preventive replacements for a multi‐state, Markovian deterioration system with silent failures such that total expected discounted cost is minimized. We model this problem as a partially observed Markov decision process and show that the structural properties of the optimal policy hold for certain non‐extreme sample paths. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2007 |
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| Keywords: | reliability and quality stochastic process optimization |
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