Technical Note—A Note on Quality Control under Markovian Deterioration
Author(s) -
John S. Hughes
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
operations research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.797
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1526-5463
pISSN - 0030-364X
DOI - 10.1287/opre.28.2.421
Subject(s) - dynamic programming , quality (philosophy) , mathematical optimization , action (physics) , control (management) , markov process , state (computer science) , computer science , markov decision process , mathematical economics , operations research , mathematics , algorithm , artificial intelligence , statistics , philosophy , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics
This note reformulates a two-action, two-state sequential quality control model as a renewal problem leading to a one-dimensional search as a solution method in place of the backward induction method of dynamic programming.
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