Dynamic order acceptance and capacity planning in a stochastic multi-project environment with a bottleneck resource
研究了多项目环境中动态到达的订单接受与产能规划的集成问题，建模为连续时间马尔可夫决策过程以确定长期最优决策，并分析了宏观流程规划应在订单接受之前还是之后进行。
We study the integration of order acceptance and capacity planning in multi-project environments with dynamically arriving projects. We model this planning problem as a continuous-time Markov decision process to determine long-term optimal decisions. We examine whether macro-process planning should be performed before or after order acceptance. We characterise the structure of optimal policies, and explore the dependence on a number of parameters such as project payoff, project cost and order arrival time. We also look into the effects of set-up costs and the use of non-regular capacity.