Control of Dams Using Pλ,τM Policies When the Input Process Is a Nonnegative Lévy Process
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We consider Pλ,τM policy of a dam in which the water input is an increasing Lévy process. The release rate of the water is changed from 0 to M and from M to 0 (M>0) at the moments when the water level upcrosses level λ and downcrosses level τ (τ<λ), respectively. We determine the potential of the dam content and compute the total discounted as well as the long-run average cost. We also find the stationary distribution of the dam content. Our results extend the results in the literature when the water input is assumed to be a Poisson process.