Optimal Enterprise: Engineering and Control

Abstract

The paper presents a system of formal models that allows posing and solving the question of engineering and managing an Enterprise as a mathematical optimization problem. A methodological analysis is made and a qualitative formalism is developed in the form of an integrated set of structural and process models describing the Enterprise and its complex activity. A harmonized set of mathematical models and methods is synthesized. The qualitative and mathematical models and methods constitute a basic conceptual structure of ideas and approaches on how to create and optimally manage an Enterprise: the Optimal Enterprise Control Framework.