Download or read book Discrete-Event Control of Stochastic Networks: Multimodularity and Regularity written by Eitan Altman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-12-09 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening new directions in research in both discrete event dynamic systems as well as in stochastic control, this volume focuses on a wide class of control and of optimization problems over sequences of integer numbers. This is a counterpart of convex optimization in the setting of discrete optimization. The theory developed is applied to the control of stochastic discrete-event dynamic systems. Some applications are admission, routing, service allocation and vacation control in queuing networks. Pure and applied mathematicians will enjoy reading the book since it brings together many disciplines in mathematics: combinatorics, stochastic processes, stochastic control and optimization, discrete event dynamic systems, algebra.