| Article ID: | iaor19942345 |
| Country: | Germany |
| Volume: | 28 |
| Start Page Number: | 95 |
| End Page Number: | 110 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1993 |
| Journal: | Optimization |
| Authors: | Hildenbrandt R. |
A special Markov decision process, connected with the transportation process and with partitions, is introduced and characterized. The special case of uniformly distributed requirements and identical basic cost is investigated in the last section of the paper.