Abstract: Top-down maintenance, rehabilitation, and reconstruction (MR&R) policies typically are modeled using Markov decision processes (MDPs). Within this framework, the total agency costs are assumed to increase linearly with ...

Abstract: In the context of sequential decision making under uncertainty, the Markov decision process (MDP) is a widely used mathematical framework. The MDP-based approaches in the infrastructure management literature can be broadly ...

Abstract: The operational reality that dominates organizations can inhibit their ability to document recurring work processes, which is instrumental in defining work responsibilities, incorporating quality assurance, evaluating lead ...