Sample path derivatives for (s, S) inventory systems with price determination

Operations Research/ Computer Science Interfaces Series

Volumn 29, Issue , 2005, Pages 229-246

  Zhang, Huiju ^a   Fu, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Inventory management; Sample path derivatives

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888629127     PISSN: 1387666X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-23529-9_16     Document Type: Article

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