Provably near-optimal sampling-based algorithms for stochastic Inventory control models

Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 739-748

  Levi, Retsef ^a   Roundy, Robin O ^b   Shmoys, David B ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximation algorithms; Black box; Inventory problems; Sampling based algorithms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INVENTORY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; BLACK BOX; INVENTORY PROBLEMS; SAMPLING-BASED ALGORITHMS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY;

EID: 33748163423     PISSN: 07378017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1132516.1132619     Document Type: Conference Paper

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