A discrete event system (DES) is a dynamic system that evolves in accordance with the
abrupt occurrence, at possibly unknown irregular intervals, of physical events. Such systems …

SUMMARY A general class of non‐diffusion stochastic models is introduced with a view to
providing a framework for studying optimization problems arising in queueing systems …

This book is concerned with the Questions of modeling, estimation, optimal control,
identification, and the adaptive control of stochastic systems. The treatment of these …

This work is a survey of the average cost control problem for discrete-time Markov
processes. The authors have attempted to put together a comprehensive account of the …

Power grids, flexible manufacturing, cellular communications: interconnectedness has
consequences. This remarkable book gives the tools and philosophy you need to build …

The problem considered is that of optimally controlling a queueing system which consists of
a common buffer or queue served by two servers. The arrivals to the buffer are Poisson and …

The time average reward for a discrete-time controlled Markov process subject to a time-
average cost constraint is maximized over the class of al causal policies. Each epoch, a …

Optimal controls described by switching curves in the two-dimensional state space are
shown to exist for the optimal control of a Markov network with two service stations and …

We prove a monotonicity result for the problem of optimal service rate control in certain
queueing networks. Consider, as an illustrative example, a number of·/M/1 queues which …

Edge cloud is a promising architecture in order to address the latency problem in mobile
cloud computing. However, as compared with remote clouds, edge clouds have limited …