Hierarchical Decision Making in Stochastic Manufacturing Systems Book

	Preface
	Notation
Pt. I	Introduction and Models of Manufacturing Systems	1
1	Concepts of hierarchical decision making	3
2	Models of manufacturing systems	17
Pt. II	Optimal Control of Manufacturing Systems: Existence and Characterization	29
3	Optimal control of parallel machine systems	31
4	Optimal control of dynamic flowshops	63
Pt. III	Asymptotic Optimal Controls	83
5	Hierarchical controls in systems with parallel machines	85
6	Hierarchical controls in dynamic flowshops	131
7	Hierarchical controls in dynamic jobshops	157
8	Hierarchical production and set up scheduling in a single machine system	187
9	Hierarchical feedback controls in two-machine flowshops	219
Pt. IV	Multilevel Hierarchical Decisions	249
10	A production and capacity expansion model	251
11	Production-marketing systems	277
Pt. V	Computations and Conclusions	303
12	Computations and evaluation of hierarchical controls	305
13	Further extensions and open research problems	327
Pt. VI	Appendices	335
A	Finite state Markov chains	337
B	Martingale problems, tightness, and Skorohod representation	341
C	Rate of convergence of Markov chains	345
D	Control-dependent Markov chains	357
E	Convergence of Markov chains with two parameters	363
F	Convex functions	369
G	Viscosity solutions of HJB equations	371
H	Value functions and optimal controls	379
I	A review of relevant graph theory	385
J	Miscellany	387
	Bibliography	393
	Author index	411
	Subject index	414
	Copyright permissions	418