Optimal capacity investment decisions with two-sided fixed-capacity adjustment costs

Operations Research

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 272-283

  Ye, Qing ^a   Duenyas, Izak ^b  

^a Tsinghua University   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic programming optimal control: Models; Facilities equipment planning: capacity expansion; Inventory production: policies

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY EXPANSION; EQUIPMENT PLANNING; INVENTORY PRODUCTION; PURCHASE CAPACITY;

COSTS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; INVESTMENTS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 34247510304     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1060.0386     Document Type: Article

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