Information sharing in capacity constrained supply chains under lost sales

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 49, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 7469-7491

  Davis, Lauren B ^a   King, Russell E ^b   Hodgson, Thom J ^b   Wei, Wenbin ^c  

^a North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

^c Artificial Intelligence Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Markov decision process; Supply chain information sharing

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SHARING; LOST SALE; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; TWO STAGE; VALUE OF INFORMATION; VALUE OF INFORMATION SHARING;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION USE; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SALES; SUPPLY CHAINS;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 84855819317     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2010.535037     Document Type: Article

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