| Article ID: | iaor2005405 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 33 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 97 |
| End Page Number: | 104 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2005 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Smith Robert L., Schochetman Irwin E. |
| Keywords: | planning, production |
For time-varying deterministic infinite horizon control problems, we provide conditions for the existence of efficient solutions, i.e., solutions which are optimal to each of the states through which they pass. A sufficient condition is that the mappings from controls to states be open. Applications to production planning are considered.