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Optimal control and optimal sensor activation for Markov decision problems with costly observations [PDF]
, 2015 This paper considers partial observation Markov decision processes. Besides the classical control decisions influencing the transition probabilities of the Markov process, we also consider control actions that can activate the sensors to provide more or ...
Boel, René, van Schuppen, Jan H.
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Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia, 2008 Os procedimentos em hemoterapia são complexos e caros. Exigem processos controlados e validados, equipamentos calibrados e monitorados e insumos qualificados, validados e inspecionados antes e durante o uso. Isto acarreta, além dos gastos diretos, gastos
Eugênia M. A. Ubiali +3 more
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"A manager in the minds of doctors" : a comparison of new modes of control in European hospitals [PDF]
, 2013 Background: Hospital governance increasingly combines management and professional self-governance. This article maps the new emergent modes of control in a comparative perspective and aims to better understand the relationship between medicine and ...
Burau, Viola +6 more
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Optimal control of an SIR epidemic through finite-time non-pharmaceutical intervention
, 2020 We consider the problem of controlling an SIR-model epidemic by temporarily reducing the rate of contact within a population. The control takes the form of a multiplicative reduction in the contact rate of infectious individuals.
Ketcheson, David I.
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Global payment for health services as a solution in the financial crisis in Europe
International Journal of Integrated Care, 2012 In these financial difficult years many European governments used global ceilings to control costs of health services. Two scenarios are thinkable.
Guus Schrijvers
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Distributed Receding Horizon Control with Application to Multi-Vehicle Formation Stabilization [PDF]
, 2004 We consider the control of interacting subsystems whose dynamics and constraints are uncoupled, but whose state vectors are coupled non-separably in a single centralized cost function of a finite horizon optimal control problem.
Dunbar, William B., Murray, Richard M.
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Analysis of 5D BIM for cost estimation, cost control and payments
Journal of Information Technology in ConstructionIncreasing expectancy for efficiency in the delivery of building projects and the adoption of lean production processes for construction has made the necessity for the development of an integrated system for cost estimating, cost monitoring, cost control,
Pardis Pishdad, Ihuoma O. Onungwa
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Quantifying the entropic cost of cellular growth control
, 2017 We quantify the amount of regulation required to control growth in living cells by a Maximum Entropy approach to the space of underlying metabolic states described by genome-scale models. Results obtained for E.
Capuani, Fabrizio +2 more
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Model Predictive Control, Cost Controllability, and Homogeneity [PDF]
SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 2020 We are concerned with the design of Model Predictive Control (MPC) schemes such that asymptotic stability of the resulting closed loop is guaranteed even if the linearization at the desired set point fails to be stabilizable. Therefore, we propose to construct the stage cost based on the homogeneous approximation and rigorously show that applying MPC ...
Coron, Jean-Michel +2 more
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IET Control Theory & Applications, 2019 This study investigates the non-fragile sampled-data guaranteed cost control problem for a bio-economic singular Markovian jump system that is represented by the Takagi–Sugeno fuzzy model.
R. Sakthivel +4 more
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