This study aims to develop a multi-period distribution system design model that provides an integrated view of the various costs, service quality and budget concerns within the planning horizon, as well as computationally feasible methods for obtaining solutions in realistic situations. The key design decisions considered in each period are: the number and location of distribution centers in t...

In this note we construct finite and infinite horizon minimax observers for a linear stationary DAE with deterministic, unknown, but bounded noise. By using generalized Kalman duality and geometric control we prove that the finite (infinite) horizon observer exists if and only if the DAE is observable (detectable). Remarkably, the regularity for the DAE is not required.

In this paper, we study the e$cacy of alternative process improvement strategies for a container-"lling production process. Three types of improvement actions to modify process parameters are considered: reducing the process setup cost, reducing the arrival rate of the out-of-control state, and reducing the process variance. It is assumed that these process parameters can be changed with a one-...

We investigate the computability of problems in probabilistic planning and partially observable innnite-horizon Markov decision processes. The undecidability of the string-existence problem for probabilistic nite automata is adapted to show that the following problem of plan existence in probabilistic planning is undecidable: given a probabilistic planning problem, determine whether there exist...