Optimality of (s, S) policies in inventory models with markovian demand

Operations Research

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 931-939

  Sethi, Suresh P ^a   Cheng, Feng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FUNCTIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

INVENTORY MODELS; MARKOVIAN DEMAND; POLICY OPTIMALITY;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 0031277069     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.45.6.931     Document Type: Article

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