Status Prediction of Schedule Equipment.

R. E. Johnson, B. G. Marks

ResearchPublished 1961

Consideration of the problem of predicting equipment status when movements of units of equipment from one state to another are governed not only by the transition probabilities of a Markov chain, but also by a control process that involves a form of scheduling. In scheduling, reassignments of equipment from certain states to others are planned for various future times. Because the number of units actually available for reassignment is a random variable,"expected reassignments" are used in determining equipment status at each successive stage in the prediction process. Expected reassignments are used to modify equipment status at the beginning of a period, and then the transition probabilites of a Markov chain are used to determine the status of equipment at the end of that period. By using the resulting predictions, a decisionmaker is in a position to evaluate the future performance of the system and to adjust his schedule accordingly.

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