Risk averse selective newsvendor problems

International Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 681-703

  Taaffe, Kevin ^a   Chahar, Kiran ^a   Tirumalasetty, Deepak ^b  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

^b TransSolutions   (United States)

Author keywords

Demand selection; Demand uncertainty; Heuristic; Mean variance analysis; Newsvendor; Order quantity; Risk aversion; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 48549100748     PISSN: 17457645     EISSN: 17457653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJOR.2008.019733     Document Type: Article

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