Learning and adaptation of a policy for dynamic order acceptance in make-to-order manufacturing

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 70-83

  Arredondo, Facundo ^a   Martinez, Ernesto ^a  

^a El INGAR Instituto de Desarollo y Diseno   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Demand management; Make to order manufacturing; Order acceptance; Order similarity; Reinforcement learning; Revenue management

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL RATES; CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT; DECISION-MAKING PROBLEM; DEMAND MANAGEMENT; DIFFERENT ORDER; DUE DATES; DYNAMIC ORDER; GAIN VALUES; INSTALLED CAPACITY; LEARNING AND ADAPTATION; LOCALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION; MAKE TO ORDER; MANUFACTURING SYSTEM; ON-LINE ADAPTATION; ORDER ACCEPTANCE; PER UNIT; PRODUCT MIX; PRODUCTION PLANNING; REVENUE MANAGEMENT; SHOP FLOOR; SIMULATION-BASED;

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MANUFACTURE; PLANNING; PRODUCTION CONTROL; PUBLIC RELATIONS; REINFORCEMENT; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 72049095063     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2009.08.005     Document Type: Article

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