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Title: MARKOV MODELS AND OPTIMIZATION
By: M. H. A. Davis
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 041231410X
ISBN 13: 9780412314100
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Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Pub. date: 1 August, 1993
Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics & Applied Probability 49
Pages: 308
Description: This monograph presents a radical approach to the problems of evaluating and optimizing the performance of continuous-time stochastic processes, based on the use of a family of Markov processes, called piecewise-deterministic, as a general class of stochastic system models.
Synopsis: This book presents a radically new approach to problems of evaluating and optimizing the performance of continuous-time stochastic systems. This approach is based on the use of a family of Markov processes called Piecewise-Deterministic Processes (PDPs) as a general class of stochastic system models. A PDP is a Markov process that follows deterministic trajectories between random jumps, the latter occurring either spontaneously, in a Poisson-like fashion, or when the process hits the boundary of its state space. This formulation includes an enormous variety of applied problems in engineering, operations research, management science and economics as special cases; examples include queueing systems, stochastic scheduling, inventory control, resource allocation problems, optimal planning of production or exploitation of renewable or non-renewable resources, insurance analysis, fault detection in process systems, and tracking of maneuvering targets, among many others. The first part of the book shows how these applications lead to the PDP as a system model, and the main properties of PDPs are derived.There is particular emphasis on the so-called extended generator of the process, which gives a general method for calculating expectations and distributions of system performance functions. The second half of the book is devoted to control theory for PDPs, with a view to controlling PDP models for optimal performance: characterizations are obtained of optimal strategies both for continuously-acting controllers and for control by intervention (impulse control). Throughout the book, modern methods of stochastic analysis are used, but all the necessary theory is developed from scratch and presented in a self-contained way. The book will be useful to engineers and scientists in the application areas as well as to mathematicians interested in applications of stochastic analysis.
Illustrations: black & white illustrations
Publication: US
Imprint: Chapman & Hall/CRC
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