Article ID: | iaor19991127 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 100 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 81 |
End Page Number: | 96 |
Publication Date: | Jul 1997 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Vassiliou P.-C.G., Georgiou A.C. |
Keywords: | markov processes |
We study the problem of introducing the phases through which a nonhomogeneous Markov system passes, as time goes to infinity. For each phase an appropriate objective function is introduced and a cost problem is formulated. Appropriate input policies subject to the cost objective functions which are established on the Markov manpower system are investigated. Finally, a procedure is provided that summarises the phases, the objective functions and the control policies commencing from the initial structure that result in its stationary form.