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100 1 _aReveliotis, Spyros A.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aReal-Time Management of Resource Allocations Systems
_h[electronic resource] :
_bA Discrete Event Systems Approach /
_cby Spyros A. Reveliotis.
264 1 _aBoston, MA :
_bSpringer US,
_c2005.
300 _aX, 244 p.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aInternational Series in Operations Research & Management Science,
_x0884-8289 ;
_v79
505 0 _aResource Allocation Systems: Concepts and Problems -- Logical Control of Disjunctive / Conjunctive Resource Allocation Systems -- Sequential RAS Admitting Optimal Nonblocking Supervision of Polynomial Complexity -- Polynomial-Kernel Nonblocking Supervisory Control Policies for Single-Unit RAS -- Logical Control of RAS with Complex Process Flows -- Performance-Oriented Modelling and Control of Logically Controlled RAS -- Epilogue.
520 _aREAL-TIME MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCE ALLOCATION SYSTEMS focuses on the problem of managing the resource allocation taking place within the operational context of many contemporary technological applications, including flexibly automated production systems, automated railway and/or monorail transportation systems, electronic workflow management systems, and business transaction supporting systems. A distinct trait of all these applications is that they limit the role of the human element to remote high-level supervision, while placing the burden of the real-time monitoring and coordination of the ongoing activity upon a computerized control system. Hence, any applicable control paradigm must address not only the issues of throughput maximization, work-in-process inventory reduction, and delay and cost minimization, that have been the typical concerns for past studies on resource allocation, but it must also guarantee the operational correctness and the behavioral consistency of the underlying automated system. The resulting problem is rather novel for the developers of these systems, since, in the past, many of its facets were left to the jurisdiction of the present human intelligence. It is also complex, due to the high levels of choice – otherwise known as flexibility – inherent in the operation of these environments. This book proposes a control paradigm that offers a comprehensive and integrated solution to, both, the behavioral / logical and the performance-oriented control problems underlying the management of the resource allocation taking place in the aforementioned highly automated technological applications. Building upon a series of fairly recent results from Discrete Event Systems theory, the proposed paradigm is distinguished by: (i) its robustness to the experienced stochasticities and operational contingencies; (ii) its scalability to the large-scale nature of the target technological applications; and (iii) its operational efficiency. These three properties are supported through the adoption of a "closed-loop" structure for the proposed control scheme, and also, through a pertinent decomposition of the overall control function to a logical and a performance-oriented controller for the underlying resource allocation. REAL-TIME MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCE ALLOCATION SYSTEMS provides a rigorous study of the control problems addressed by each of these two controllers, and of their integration to a unified control function. A notion of optimal control is formulated for each of these problems, but it turns out that the corresponding optimal policies are computationally intractable. Hence, a large part of the book is devoted to the development of effective and computationally efficient approximations for these optimal control policies, especially for those that correspond to the more novel logical control problem.
650 0 _aEngineering.
650 0 _aOperations research.
650 0 _aDecision making.
650 0 _aSystem theory.
650 0 _aComputer mathematics.
650 0 _aApplied mathematics.
650 0 _aEngineering mathematics.
650 0 _aIndustrial engineering.
650 0 _aProduction engineering.
650 1 4 _aEngineering.
650 2 4 _aIndustrial and Production Engineering.
650 2 4 _aSystems Theory, Control.
650 2 4 _aOperation Research/Decision Theory.
650 2 4 _aAppl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.
650 2 4 _aComputational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.
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776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
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830 0 _aInternational Series in Operations Research & Management Science,
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856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b104057
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