A method and apparatus for the control of a system comprising of a plurality
of
items through the scheduling of actions and the allocation of resources is disclosed.
Primary areas of utility include manufacturing systems, city wide vehicle traffic
control, multiple project scheduling, communications networks and economic systems.
The method and apparatus comprise modeling the parts in such a system as fluid,
formulating the control problem as a continuous linear program, using a novel algorithm
to solve it, displaying the fluid solution in a meaningful way, and using the fluid
solution in the control of the system.
