| Article ID: | iaor199462 |
| Country: | Germany |
| Volume: | 14 |
| Start Page Number: | 71 |
| End Page Number: | 78 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1992 |
| Journal: | OR Spektrum |
| Authors: | Schneeberger S. |
| Keywords: | markov processes |
For technical systems with modular construction the computation of an optimal maintenance-policy for the case of incomplete information about the state of system leads to a Markov decision process ‘with dependent actions’. Therefore a branch-and-bound-algorithm will be developed.