Inventory processes: Quasi-regenerative property, performance evaluation, and sensitivity estimation via simulation

Stochastic Models

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 469-496

  Pflug, Georg ^a   Rubinstein, Reuven Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Change of measure method; Inventory; Response surface simulation; Sensitivity analysis; Stochastic optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; FUNCTIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

REGENERATIVE PROPERTIES;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 0041926258     PISSN: 15326349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STM-120014222     Document Type: Article

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