A diffusion inventory model for deteriorating items

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-39

  Benkherouf, Lakdere ^a   Boumenir, Amin ^a   Aggoun, Lakhdar ^a  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Deteriorating items; Diffusion process; Impulse control; Inventory control; Quasi Variational Inequality

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; INVENTORY CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEDULING;

QUASI-VARIATIONAL INEQUALITY (QVI);

STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037408923     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0096-3003(02)00097-8     Document Type: Article

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