Bounds on optimal cost for a replacement problem with partial observations

Chelsea C. White

Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, 1979, vol. 26, issue 3, 415-422

Abstract: This paper characterizes the structure of optimal strategies for a replacement problem for two special cases of observation quality. It is shown that when the state of the system is either completely observed or completely unobserved at every decision epoch by the controller, reasonable assumptions are sufficient for the existence of optimal replacement strategies composed of policies having a generalized, control‐limit form. These structural results are of particular interest since the optimal cost functions for the two special cases represent bounds on the optimal cost function for the general partially observed case, significant computational simplification can result for the two special cases due to their optimal strategy structure, and optimal strategies possessing a control‐limit structure do not necessarily exist for the general partially observed case.

Date: 1979
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