Preservation of quasi-K-concavity and its applications

Operations Research

Volumn 58, Issue 4 PART 1, 2010, Pages 1012-1016

  Chen, Xin ^a   Zhang, Yuhan ^a   Zhou, Sean X ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Concave ordering cost; Inventory control; Optimal policy; Pricing; Quasi K concavity

Indexed keywords

DETERMINISTIC FUNCTIONS; DISCOUNTED PROFIT; FINITE PLANNING HORIZON; INVENTORY SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL POLICIES; OPTIMIZATION OPERATION; ORDERING COST; ORDERING QUANTITY; PRICING; PRICING MODELS; QUASI-K-CONCAVITY; RANDOM PERTURBATIONS; SELLING PRICES; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION;

INVENTORY CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY;

COSTS;

EID: 77955860775     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1090.0802     Document Type: Article

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