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.