Optimal investment, pricing and replacement of computer resources

Charles H. Kriebel, Anthony A. Atkinson and Huntley W. H. Zia

Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, 1977, vol. 24, issue 4, 537-547

Abstract: The problem of multiple‐resource capacity planning under an infinite time horizon is analyzed using a nonlinear programming model. The analysis generalizes to the long term the short‐run pricing model for computer networks developed in Kriebel and Mikhail [5]. The environment assumes heterogeneous resource capacities by age (vingate), which service a heterogeneous and relatively captive market of users with known demand functions in each time period. Total variable operating costs are given by a continuous psuedoconcave function of system load, capacity, and resource age. Optimal investment, pricing, and replacement decision rules are derived in the presence of economies of scale and exogenous technological progress. Myopic properties of the decision rules which define natural (finite) planning subhorizons are discussed.

Date: 1977
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