Relief inventory modelling with stochastic lead-time and demand

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 235, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 616-623

  Das, Rubel ^a   Hanaoka, Shinya ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Humanitarian logistics; Inventory; Uniform distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894495295     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2013.12.042     Document Type: Article

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