Experimental Results Indicating Lattice-Dependent Policies May Be Optimal for General Assemble-To-Order Systems

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 647-661

  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; inventory management; lost sales; Markov decision processes; mixed integer program

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944386018     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/poms.12498     Document Type: Article

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