A two-item newsboy problem with substitutability

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 267-275

  Khouja, Moutaz ^a   Mehrez, Abraham ^b   Rabinowitz, Gad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo simulation; Single period problem; Substitutability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

OPTIMAL ORDER QUANTITIES; PROFIT; SUBSTITUTABILITY; TWO ITEM NEWSBOY PROBLEM;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 0030181807     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0925-5273(96)80002-V     Document Type: Article

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