With fluctuating sales, a manufacturer must have fluctuating production, or fluctuating inventory, or both. Penalties are associated with either type of fluctuation. Several papers place this problem ...

Model abstraction for finite state automata is helpful for decreasing computational complexity and improving comprehensibility for the verification and control synthesis of discrete-event systems (DES ...

George B. Dantzig, the mathematician who invented the field of linear programming, which revolutionized the way government and private enterprise planned, scheduled and generally conducted their ...