Optimality of impulse harvesting policies

Optimality Of Monetary And Fiscal Policies In Iran: An Application Of The Stochastic Optimal Control Theory

Optimality of Certain Channel Aware Scheduling Policies

With an abstraction of serving rate-adaptive sources on a broadcast-type wireless channel as a utility maximization problem, it is shown how one can design many intuitive online scheduling policies based upon the feedback that one obtains at the scheduler. Using a stochastic approximation argument it is then shown that the constructed algorithms converge to optimal solutions of the utility maxi...

Robustness and Optimality of Light Harvesting in Cyanobacterial Photosystem I

Melih K. Sener,† Deyu Lu,†,‡ Thorsten Ritz,§ Sanghyun Park,†,‡ Petra Fromme,#,⊥ and Klaus Schulten*,†,‡ Beckman Institute, UniVersity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, Department of Physics, UniVersity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, Department of Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniVersity, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, Max-Volmer ...

Optimality Inequalities for Average Cost Markov Decision Processes and the Optimality of (s, S) Policies

For general state and action space Markov decision processes, we present sufficient conditions for convergence of both the optimal discounted cost value function and policies to the corresponding objects for the average costs per unit time. We extend Schäl’s [24] assumptions, guaranteeing the existence of a solution to the average cost optimality inequalities for compact action sets, to non-com...

Optimality of Zero-Inventory Policies for Unreliable Manufacturing Systems