scholarly journals An Optimal Inventory Pricing and Ordering Strategy Subject to Stock and Price Dependent Demand

Author(s):  
A. Tsoularis ◽  
J. Wallace

This article considers the deterministic optimal control problem of profit maximization for inventory replenished at a variable rate and depleted by demand which is assumed to vary with price and stock availability. Optimal policies for the inventor, product order rate and price are derived using the maximum principle. Bounds on the maximum price possible are also derived.

1986 ◽  
Vol 108 (4) ◽  
pp. 330-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Townsend ◽  
D. B. Cherchas ◽  
A. Abdelmessih

This study considers the optimal control of dry bulb temperature and moisture content in a single zone, to be accomplished in such a way as to be implementable in any zone of a multi-zone system. Optimality is determined in terms of appropriate cost and performance functions and subject to practical limits using the maximum principle. Several candidate optimal control strategies are investigated. It is shown that a bang-bang switching control which is theoretically periodic is a least cost practical control. In addition, specific attributes of this class of problem are explored.


2018 ◽  
Vol 226 ◽  
pp. 02012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktor P. Lapshin ◽  
Ilya A. Turkin ◽  
Alexey A. Zakalyuzhnyy ◽  
Viktor F. Khlystunov ◽  
Gennadiy A. Kuzin

A special case of synthesizing the electromechanical control system by the maximum method and using the Analytical Construction method of Aggregate Regulators (ACAR) is considered in the article. For the basis the task of synthesizing the optimal for speed electromechanical positioning system was chosen, while the moment of resistance to movement linearly depended on the output coordinate of the system, that is, on the angle of the engine rotor rotation. Synthesis of the optimal system for speed makes it possible to increase the efficiency of the entire production process in many production tasks, and the synthesis of the optimal linear control system based on the maximum principle is a fairly well-formalized problem. Here it should be noted that the procedure for synergistic synthesis of the optimal control system has no such formalization. An approach that brings together the solutions obtained by these two methods, which makes it possible to increase the efficiency of the ACAR method by adding some features of the methodology for synthesizing optimal systems by introducing nonlinearity of the “saturation” type is proposed in the article. The results obtained made it possible to formulate the following basic scientific proposition: the synthesis of a control system based on the synergetic approach makes it possible to obtain a system close to optimal (quasi-optimal, but after the modification of the synergetic synthesis method itself.) Here we also formulate the hypothesis of a connection between the time constants, using the ACAR method, with the optimal control switching time determined in the maximum method.


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