Censored newsvendor model revisited with unnormalized probabilities

Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 391-402

  Bensoussan, Alain ^a   Çakanyildirim, Metin ^b   Sethi, Suresh P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Newsvendor problem; Unnormalized probabilities; Unobserved unmet demand

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649496555     PISSN: 15475816     EISSN: 1553166X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/jimo.2009.5.391     Document Type: Conference Paper

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