Coordinating service-sensitive demand and capacity by adaptive decision making: An application of case-based decision theory

Decision Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-32

  Jahnke, Hermann ^a   Chwolka, Anne ^a,b   Simons, Dirk ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

After Sales Services; Capacity Planning; Case Based decision Theory; Decision Analysis; Pricing; Queueing Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744577643     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2005.00064.x     Document Type: Review

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