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of GWU/lMSE/Serial T-487/84 16 April 1984 A STEADY-STATE VERSION OF A DYNAMIC OPTIMAL BUDGETING PROBLEM by . . Richard M. Soland We present and justify a steady-state version of a dynamic optimal budgeting problem arising in the Resource Dynamics project. The steady-state model is first reduced to closed form, and then it is analyzed for each of two choices of objective function. Optimal solutions can be found numerically, and are presented for current values of the input data. The numerical results obtained closely approximate those from a piecewise linear approximation to the dynamic version of the problem. Research Supported by Office of Naval Research THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY School of Engineering and Applied Science Institute for Management Science and Engineering Resource Dynamics A STEADY-STATE VERSION OF A DYNAMIC OPTIMAL BUDGETING PROBLEM by Richard M. Soland