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Special Solution Methods for Replacement Problems

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In this paper some replacement problems are considered. These problems are modelled as Markov decision problems. They have a special structure which is used to construct efficient solutions methods.

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Kallenberg, L. (2001). Special Solution Methods for Replacement Problems. In: Fleischmann, B., Lasch, R., Derigs, U., Domschke, W., Rieder, U. (eds) Operations Research Proceedings. Operations Research Proceedings, vol 2000. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56656-1_14

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