Revenue management of a make-to-stock queue

Operations Research

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 859-875

  Caldentey, René ^a   Wein, Lawrence M ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion models; Inventory production; Stochastic, approximations heuristics; queues

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION MODELS; RANDOM WALK MODEL; REVENUE MANAGEMENT; STOCHASTIC RENEWAL PROCESSES;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONTRACTS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INVENTORY CONTROL; PRODUCTION CONTROL; QUEUEING THEORY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 33749622134     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1060.0289     Document Type: Article

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