We show that competitive equilibria in a range of models related to production networks can be recovered as solutions dynamic programs. Although these programs fail contractive, we prove they are tractable. As an illustration, treat Coase's theory the firm, chains with transaction costs, and multiple partners. then how same techniques extend other equilibrium decision problems, such distributio...

An analysis of production control tasks is given, in order to derive requirements for a language for programming production controllers The programming of the controllers is divided into two related tasks: the specification of the controller environment (the description of the capabilities of the agents that the controller can use to make products and the description of how products must be pro...

preventive maintenance scheduling is to perform a series of tasks that prevents or minimizes production breakdowns and improves the reliability. mathematical models have been developed to solve the preventive maintenance scheduling problem. there are several limitations in the prior work in this area of research. craft combinations are assumed to be given. the craft combination problem concerns...

Most work on speech motor control has been devoted to the spatial and temporal coordination of articulatory movements for successive units, segments or syllables, in the speech chain. An intrasegmental temporal domain has generally been lacking in speech production models, but such a domain is necessary at least for certain classes of speech sounds, e.g., voiceless obstruents, clicks, ejectives...