Budget allocation for permanent and contingent capacity under stochastic demand

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 128-138

  Dellaert, Nico ^a   Jeunet, Jully ^b   Mincsovics, Gergely ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

Author keywords

Budget allocation; Capacity planning; Contingent workers; Non linear stochastic dynamic programming; Optimization; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COST FUNCTIONS; COSTS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

BUDGET ALLOCATION; BUDGET CONSTRAINT; CAPACITY PLANNING; CONTINGENT WORKERS; DEMAND VARIABILITY; QUADRATIC COST FUNCTIONS; RESTRICTED BUDGET; STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

BUDGET CONTROL;

EID: 79952593494     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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