Inventory management in supply chains: A reinforcement learning approach

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 153-161

  Giannoccaro, Ilaria ^a   Pontrandolfo, Pierpaolo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Inventory management; Markov decision processes; Reinforcement learning; Supply chain

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INVENTORY CONTROL; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PUBLIC POLICY; RAW MATERIALS;

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; SUPPLY CHAINS;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 0037151232     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-5273(00)00156-0     Document Type: Article

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