A simple and fast 2-approximation algorithm for the one-warehouse multi-retailers problem

Proceedings of the Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 67-79

  Stauffer, Gautier ^a   Massonnet, Guillaume ^b   Rapine, Christophe ^b   Gavon, Jean Philippe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE G SCOP   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVENTORY CONTROL; SALES; WAREHOUSES;

COMBINATORIAL ALGORITHM; FEASIBLE SOLUTION; HOLDING COSTS; INVENTORY CONTROL PROBLEMS; JOINT REPLENISHMENT PROBLEM; MULTI-RETAILERS; QUADRATIC TIME; SUB-PROBLEMS;

COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS;

EID: 79955705641     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1137/1.9781611973082.6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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