Technical note-optimal structural results for assemble-to-order generalized M-Systems

Operations Research

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 571-579

  Nadar, Emre ^a   Akan, Mustafa ^b   Scheller Wolf, Alan ^b  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assemble to order systems; Lattice dependent policies; Markov decision processes; Optimal control

Indexed keywords

FLASH MEMORY; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MARKOV PROCESSES;

ALLOCATION POLICIES; ASSEMBLE-TO-ORDER; INFINITE HORIZONS; INVENTORY ALLOCATION; INVENTORY REPLENISHMENT; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; MULTIPLE COMPONENTS; OPTIMAL CONTROLS;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84902981449     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.2014.1271     Document Type: Article

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