Discrete Event Systems, Manufacturing Systems, and Communication Networks (Hardcover)

Markovian fragments: Complete subtheories of COCOLOG theories.- On-line optimization of queues using infinitesimal perturbation analysis.- A new paradigm for stochastic optimization and parallel simulation.- Dynamic set-up scheduling of flexible manufacturing systems: Design and stability of near optimal general round Robin policies.- Homomorphic reduction of coordination analysis.- Discrete-time MARKOV-reward models of production systems.- Modeling real-time systems using rate automata.- Symbolic discrete-event simulation.- Decentralized discrete-event systems and computational complexity.- Starvation-based instability of distributed scheduling policies in non-acyclic fluid and queuing networks.