A dynamic stochastic stock-cutting problem

Operations Research

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 690-701

  Krichagina, Elena V ^a   Rubio, Rodrigo ^b   Taksar, Michael I ^c   Wein, Lawrence M ^d  

^a TRAPEZNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CONTROL SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b MCKINSEY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; INVENTORY CONTROL; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; OPTIMIZATION; PAPERMAKING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PUBLIC POLICY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BROWNIAN ANALYSIS; BROWNIAN CONTROL; RANDOM CUSTOMER DEMAND; STOCK CUTTING PROBLEM;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0032154640     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.46.5.690     Document Type: Article

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