This paper studies constrained portfolio problems that may involve constraints on the probability or the expected size of a shortfall of wealth or consumption. Our first contribution is that we solve the problems by dynamic programming, which is in contrast to the existing literature that...

This paper examines a push-pull merge system with two suppliers, two retailers and an intermediate buffer (distribution centre). Two reliable non identical suppliers performing merge operations feed a buffer that is located immediately upstream of two non-identical reliable retailers. External...

We study the problem of optimally controlling a multiserver queueing system. Customers arrive in a Poisson fashion and join a single queue, served by N servers, S 1 ,S 2 ,… , S N . The servers have different rates. The service times at each server are independent and exponentially distributed....

This paper studies constrained portfolio problems that may involve constraints on the probability or the expected size of a shortfall of wealth or consumption. Our first contribution is that we solve the problems by dynamic programming, which is in contrast to the existing literature that...

We study the problem of optimally controlling a multiserver queueing system. Customers arrive in a Poisson fashion and join a single queue, served by N servers, S <Subscript>1</Subscript>,S <Subscript>2</Subscript>,… , S <Subscript>N</Subscript>. The servers have different rates. The service times at each server are independent and exponentially distributed....</subscript></subscript></subscript>