Study of stochastic demand inventory routing problem with soft time windows based on MDP

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

Volumn 67 LNEE, Issue , 2010, Pages 193-200

  Zeng, Wei ^a   Zhao, Qian ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Inventory route problem; Markov decision process; Soft time window; Stochastic demand

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE-TIME MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; INVENTORY LEVELS; INVENTORY ROUTING PROBLEMS; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; ROUTE PROBLEMS; STOCHASTIC DEMAND; TIME WINDOWS; UPPER LIMITS; VALUE FUNCTIONS;

MARKOV PROCESSES; NEURAL NETWORKS;

VEHICLE ROUTING;

EID: 84867377765     PISSN: 18761100     EISSN: 18761119     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12990-2_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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