Hierarchical Decision Making in Stochastic Manufacturing Systems

One of the most important methods in dealing with the optimization of large, complex systems is that of hierarchical decomposition. The idea is to reduce the overall complex problem into manageable approximate problems or subproblems, to solve these problems, and to construct a solution of the original problem from the solutions of these simpler problems. Development of such approaches for large complex systems has been identified as a particularly fruitful area by the Committee on the Next...