Prologue and Preliminaries -- Introduction, Overview, and Examples -- Mathematical Preliminaries -- Asymptotic Properties -- Asymptotic Expansions -- Occupation Measures -- Exponential Bounds -- Interim Summary and Extensions -- Applications -- Stability of Dynamic Systems -- Filtering -- Markov Decision Processes -- LQ Controls -- Mean-Variance Controls -- Production Planning -- Stochastic App…
and Models of Manufacturing Systems -- Concept of Near—Optimal Control -- Models of Manufacturing Systems -- Optimal Control of Manufacturing Systems: Existence and Characterization -- Optimal Control of Parallel—Machine Systems -- Optimal Control of Dynamic Flowshops -- Optimal Controls of Dynamic Jobshops -- Risk-Sensitive Control -- Near—Optimal Controls -- Near—Optimal Control of Pa…