Managing individual customer service constraints under stochastic demand

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 115-125

  Swaminathan, Jayashankar M ^a   Srinivasan, Ramesh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

OPTIMAL RANDOM ALLOCATION POLICY;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0032663359     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6377(99)00018-8     Document Type: Article

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