Monge Properties, Optimal Greedy Policies, and Policy Improvement for the Dynamic Stochastic Transportation Problem

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander S. Estes ◽  
Michael O. Ball
Keyword(s):  
Greedy Algorithm ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Transportation Problem ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Taxi Service ◽  
Dynamic Stochastic ◽  
Stochastic Transportation Problem ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient

We consider a dynamic, stochastic extension to the transportation problem. For the deterministic problem, there are known necessary and sufficient conditions under which a greedy algorithm achieves the optimal solution. We define a distribution-free type of optimality and provide analogous necessary and sufficient conditions under which a greedy policy achieves this type of optimality in the dynamic, stochastic setting. These results are used to prove that a greedy algorithm is optimal when planning a type of air-traffic management initiative. We also provide weaker conditions under which it is possible to strengthen an existing policy. These results can be applied to the problem of matching passengers with drivers in an on-demand taxi service. They specify conditions under which a passenger and driver should not be left unassigned.

The extinction time of a general birth and death process with catastrophes

1986 ◽  
Vol 23 (04) ◽  
pp. 851-858 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Brockwell
Keyword(s):  
Laplace Transform ◽  
Size Distribution ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Death Process ◽  
Extinction Time ◽  
Birth And Death Process ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Laplace Transform ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient

The Laplace transform of the extinction time is determined for a general birth and death process with arbitrary catastrophe rate and catastrophe size distribution. It is assumed only that the birth rates satisfyλ0= 0,λj> 0 for eachj> 0, and. Necessary and sufficient conditions for certain extinction of the population are derived. The results are applied to the linear birth and death process (λj=jλ, µj=jμ) with catastrophes of several different types.

Nonlinear boundary-value problems for degenerate differential-algebraic systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-324
Author(s):  
Sergii Chuiko ◽  
Ol'ga Nesmelova
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Value Problem ◽  
Boundary Value Problems ◽  
Algebraic System ◽  
Boundary Value ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Weakly Nonlinear ◽  
Differential Algebraic System ◽  
Linear Differential ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient

The study of the differential-algebraic boundary value problems, traditional for the Kiev school of nonlinear oscillations, founded by academicians M.M. Krylov, M.M. Bogolyubov, Yu.A. Mitropolsky and A.M. Samoilenko. It was founded in the 19th century in the works of G. Kirchhoff and K. Weierstrass and developed in the 20th century by M.M. Luzin, F.R. Gantmacher, A.M. Tikhonov, A. Rutkas, Yu.D. Shlapac, S.L. Campbell, L.R. Petzold, Yu.E. Boyarintsev, V.F. Chistyakov, A.M. Samoilenko, O.A. Boichuk, V.P. Yacovets, C.W. Gear and others. In the works of S.L. Campbell, L.R. Petzold, Yu.E. Boyarintsev, V.F. Chistyakov, A.M. Samoilenko and V.P. Yakovets were obtained sufficient conditions for the reducibility of the linear differential-algebraic system to the central canonical form and the structure of the general solution of the degenerate linear system was obtained. Assuming that the conditions for the reducibility of the linear differential-algebraic system to the central canonical form were satisfied, O.A.~Boichuk obtained the necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of the linear Noetherian differential-algebraic boundary value problem and constructed a generalized Green operator of this problem. Based on this, later O.A. Boichuk and O.O. Pokutnyi obtained the necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of the weakly nonlinear differential algebraic boundary value problem, the linear part of which is a Noetherian differential algebraic boundary value problem. Thus, out of the scope of the research, the cases of dependence of the desired solution on an arbitrary continuous function were left, which are typical for the linear differential-algebraic system. Our article is devoted to the study of just such a case. The article uses the original necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of the linear Noetherian differential-algebraic boundary value problem and the construction of the generalized Green operator of this problem, constructed by S.M. Chuiko. Based on this, necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of the weakly nonlinear differential-algebraic boundary value problem were obtained. A typical feature of the obtained necessary and sufficient conditions for the solvability of the linear and weakly nonlinear differential-algebraic boundary-value problem is its dependence on the means of fixing of the arbitrary continuous function. An improved classification and a convergent iterative scheme for finding approximations to the solutions of weakly nonlinear differential algebraic boundary value problems was constructed in the article.

On the domain of Riesz mean in the space Ls

Filomat ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 925-940 ◽  
Author(s):  
Medine Yeşilkayagil ◽  
Feyzi Başar
Keyword(s):  
Banach Space ◽  
Sequence Space ◽  
Double Sequence ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Double Sequences ◽  
Riesz Mean ◽  
Double Sequence Space ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient ◽  
Barrelled Space

Let 0 < s < ?. In this study, we introduce the double sequence space Rqt(Ls) as the domain of four dimensional Riesz mean Rqt in the space Ls of absolutely s-summable double sequences. Furthermore, we show that Rqt(Ls) is a Banach space and a barrelled space for 1 ? s < 1 and is not a barrelled space for 0 < s < 1. We determine the ?- and ?(?)-duals of the space Ls for 0 < s ? 1 and ?(bp)-dual of the space Rqt(Ls) for 1 < s < 1, where ? ? {p, bp, r}. Finally, we characterize the classes (Ls:Mu), (Ls:Cbp), (Rqt(Ls) : Mu) and (Rqt(Ls):Cbp) of four dimensional matrices in the cases both 0 < s < 1 and 1 ? s < 1 together with corollaries some of them give the necessary and sufficient conditions on a four dimensional matrix in order to transform a Riesz double sequence space into another Riesz double sequence space.

Essential norms of weighted differentiation composition operators between Zygmund type spaces and Bloch type spaces

Filomat ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (9) ◽  
pp. 2877-2889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amir Sanatpour ◽  
Mostafa Hassanlou
Keyword(s):  
Composition Operators ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Essential Norm ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Norm Estimates ◽  
Type Spaces ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient

We study boundedness of weighted differentiation composition operators Dk?,u between Zygmund type spaces Z? and Bloch type spaces ?. We also give essential norm estimates of such operators in different cases of k ? N and 0 < ?,? < ?. Applying our essential norm estimates, we get necessary and sufficient conditions for the compactness of these operators.

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