Learning market prices in real-time supply chain management

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3465-3478

  Burke, David A ^a   Brown, Kenneth N ^a   Tarim, S Armagan ^a,b   Hnich, Brahim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c IZMIR UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COST FUNCTIONS; MARKETING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DYNAMIC PRICING; SUPPLY CHAIN AGENTS;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 41149101220     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2007.01.021     Document Type: Article

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