The cutoff transaction size of a quadratic concave holding and penalty cost functions to the information value applying to the newsboy model

Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 123-139

  Lin, Chin Tsai ^a,b   Tsai, Hui Yin ^a  

^a YUANPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Concave function; Cutoff transaction size; Newsboy model

Indexed keywords

CONCAVE FUNCTION; CUTOFF TRANSACTION SIZE; LAW OF DIMINISHING MARGINAL COST; NEWSBOY MODEL; POISSON DEMAND DISTRIBUTION;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33645691268     PISSN: 02175959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217595906000784     Document Type: Article

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