Optimal control of a productioninventory system with customer impatience

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 267-272

  Benjaafar, Saif ^a   Gayon, Jean Philippe ^b   Tepe, Seda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b LABORATOIRE G SCOP   (France)

Author keywords

Customer impatience; Make to stock queues; Markov decision processes; Optimal control; Production inventory systems

Indexed keywords

ADMISSION THRESHOLD; BASE STOCK; IMPATIENT CUSTOMERS; MAKE-TO-STOCK QUEUES; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; OPTIMAL POLICIES; PRODUCTION INVENTORY SYSTEM;

COMPUTATION THEORY; CONTROL; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INVENTORY CONTROL; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION; SALES;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 77955306012     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orl.2010.03.008     Document Type: Article

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