The infinite horizon non-stationary stochastic inventory problem: Near myopic policies and weak ergodicity

DOI10.1016/S0377-2217(98)00129-5zbMath1009.90008MaRDI QIDQ1610163

Tetsuo Iida

Publication date: 18 August 2002

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

non-stationary Markov decision processesinfinite horizon inventory problemsnear myopic policiesnon-stationary demands

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Inventory, storage, reservoirs (90B05) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40)

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