This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper describes a successful implementation of a decision support system that is used by the fleet management division at North American ...

The compressibility of natural gas allows the use of line pack to compensate for fluctuations of gas demand. On the basis of forecast consumption, a linear-programming model can yield a plan for ...

An operations planning and economics improvement project at ConocoPhillips's Lake Charles, La., refinery successfully developed and implemented high-quality kinetic process models used for unit ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Nonstationary infinite-horizon Markov decision processes (MDPs) generalize the most well-studied class of sequential decision models in ...