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Controlled Semi-Markov Processes with Constraints on Control Strategies and Construction of Optimal Strategies in Reliability and Safety Models

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We study the structure of a distribution for which a linear fractional functional attains an extremum in the case of uncountably many linear constraints. Several examples of how these mathematical results can be used to analyze controlled reliability and safety models are given.

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Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, 2021, Vol. 109, pp. 571-580 https://doi.org/10.4213/mzm12972.

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Kashtanov, V.A., Zaitseva, O.B. & Efremov, A.A. Controlled Semi-Markov Processes with Constraints on Control Strategies and Construction of Optimal Strategies in Reliability and Safety Models. Math Notes 109, 585–592 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001434621030275

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