Weak aggregating algorithm for the distribution-free perishable inventory problem

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 516-521

  Levina, Tatsiana ^a   Levin, Yuri ^a   McGill, Jeff ^a   Nediak, Mikhail ^a   Vovk, Vladimir ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregating algorithm; Newsvendor problem; Online learning

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATING ALGORITHM; DISTRIBUTION-FREE; MULTI-PERIOD; NEWSVENDOR PROBLEM; ON-LINE LEARNING METHODS; ONLINE LEARNING; PERISHABLE INVENTORY; PREDICTION WITH EXPERT ADVICE; TIME-DEPENDENT; WEAK AGGREGATING ALGORITHM;

E-LEARNING;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 77958093987     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orl.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

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