A dynamic inventory rationing problem with uncertain demand and production rates

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 231, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 207-228

  Turgay, Zeynep ^a   Karaesmen, Fikri ^a   Örmeci, E Lerzan ^a  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Inventory control; Robust formulations; Stochastic dynamic programming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938418165     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-014-1573-y     Document Type: Article

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