Inventory management with random supply and imperfect information: A hidden Markov model

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 123-137

  Arifolu, Kenan ^a   Özekici, Süleyman ^a  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Base stock policy; Dynamic programming; Imperfect information; POMDP; Random environment; Random supply; Sufficient statistics

Indexed keywords

BASE STOCK POLICY; IMPERFECT INFORMATION; POMDP; RANDOM ENVIRONMENT; RANDOM SUPPLY; SUFFICIENT STATISTICS;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; INVENTORY CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 80052373904     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2011.04.033     Document Type: Article

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