Computation of approximate optimal policies in a partially observed inventory model with rain checks

Automatica

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1589-1604

  Bensoussan, Alain ^a   Cakanyildirim, Metin ^a   Sethi, Suresh P ^a   Shi, Ruixia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

Chebyshev polynomials; Fast Fourier Transforms; Partially observed inventory; Rain checks

Indexed keywords

BASE STOCK POLICY; CHEBYSHEV POLYNOMIALS; CONDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION; DISCRETIZATIONS; FOURIER; FUNCTIONAL BASIS; INVENTORY DISTRIBUTION; INVENTORY LEVELS; INVENTORY MANAGERS; INVENTORY MODELS; INVENTORY PROBLEM; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS; OPTIMAL ORDER QUANTITY; OPTIMAL POLICIES; ORDER QUANTITY; PARTIALLY OBSERVED INVENTORY; SPEED-UPS; STATE TRANSITIONS;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; INVENTORY CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; RAIN;

FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

EID: 79960912044     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2011.04.005     Document Type: Article

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