Revenue management for a make-to-order company with limited inventory capacity

OR Spectrum

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 137-156

  Defregger, Florian ^a   Kuhn, Heinrich ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EICHSTÄTT INGOLSTADT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Limited inventory; Make to order; Markov decision process; Revenue management; Value iteration algorithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750326269     PISSN: 01716468     EISSN: 14366304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00291-005-0016-1     Document Type: Article

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