Inventory systems for goods with censored random lifetimes

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-27

  Perry, David ^a   Stadje, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVENTORY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CENSORED RANDOM LIFETIMES; VIRTUAL DEATH PROCESS;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0034238927     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-6377(00)00020-1     Document Type: Article

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