A new conceptual and analytical vehicle for problems of temporal planning under uncertainty, involving determination of optimal (sequential) stochastic decision rules is defined and illustrated by means of a typical industrial example. The paper presents a method of attack which splits the...

In this paper a dynamic, adaptive model, called DEMON,⁴ is interpreted in terms of a network. The latter is here employed to reduce the problem of selecting optimal decision procedures so that these can be interpreted in terms of a conditional sequential designation of links from such a network....