Index policies for the maintenance of a collection of machines by a set of repairmen

DOI10.1016/J.EJOR.2004.01.036zbMath1112.90323OpenAlexW2041253441MaRDI QIDQ1776971

H. M. Mitchell, Kevin D. Glazebrook, P. S. Ansell

Publication date: 12 May 2005

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2004.01.036

zbMATH Keywords

schedulingdynamic programmingMarkov decision processesmachine maintenanceindex heuristics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection in operations research (90B25) Production models (90B30) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40)

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