Scheduling is a resource allocation problem which exists in virtually every type of organization. Scheduling problems have produced roughly 40 years of research primarily within the OR community. This community has traditionally emphasized mathematical modeling techniques which seek exact...

This paper studies the problem of optimally controlling a discrete-time production process with countable state space which is subject to one of three control settings at each time interval: produce, inspect while producing, or repair (revise) the process. The cost of the item produced and the...