Brownian analysis of a buffered-flow system in the face of sudden obsolescence

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 43-49

  David, Israel ^a   Greenshtein, Eitan ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Buffered flow; Diffusion approximation; Inventory control; Obsolescence

Indexed keywords

EID: 5244253190     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-6377(96)00013-2     Document Type: Article

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