Supply disruptions with time-dependent parameters

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3504-3529

  Ross, Andrew M ^a   Rong, Ying ^b   Snyder, Lawrence V ^b  

^a EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

CTMC; Inventory; Supply disruption; Time dependent

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DEMAND INTENSITY; SUPPLY DISRUPTIONS; SUPPLY PARAMETERS;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 41149143786     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2007.01.018     Document Type: Article

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