Optimal scheduling of fallible inspections
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Parmigiani, G
署名单位：
Carnegie Mellon University
刊物名称：
OPERATIONS RESEARCH
ISSN/ISSBN：
0030-364X
DOI：
10.1287/opre.44.2.360
发表日期：
1996
页码：
360-367
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摘要：
This paper gives the exact optimal solution to the problem of designing inspection schedules with fallible and time-consuming test procedures. The optimality criterion is designed to achieve a balance between the cost of inspections and the cost of undetected failure. The solution is derived in continuous time, with arbitrary failure distribution, and is based on infinite-horizon dynamic programming with time-dependent utilities, and with an additional optimization with respect to initial conditions. Results include uniqueness and monotonicity properties of the optimal solution, as well as computational algorithms.