Repeated commit-or-defer decisions with a deadline: The influenza vaccine composition

Operations Research

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 527-541

  Kornish, Laura J ^a   Keeney, Ralph L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision analysis: Sequential; Dynamic programming optimal control: Applications; Government: Regulations

Indexed keywords

COURSES OF ACTIONS; DECISION ANALYSIS: SEQUENTIAL; DECISION MODELS; DYNAMIC DECISION PROBLEMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING/OPTIMAL CONTROL: APPLICATIONS; FASHION GOODS; FLU VACCINES; GOVERNMENT: REGULATIONS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; OPTIMAL DECISION STRATEGIES; PRODUCTION DECISIONS; SEASONAL PRODUCTS; VACCINE PRODUCTIONS;

COST REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

VACCINES;

EID: 61449091393     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1070.0436     Document Type: Article

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