| Article ID: | iaor2005777 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 33 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 9 |
| End Page Number: | 16 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2005 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Gilland Wendell G. |
| Keywords: | markov processes, programming: markov decision |
We analyze sequencing policies designed to most effectively utilize the resources of a closed queueing network representation of a manufacturing system. A continuous time Markov decision process formulation is used to compare the performance of optimal sequencing policies and a heuristic developed by analyzing a heavy traffic approximation of the system.