Markovian Decision Processes in Shipment Consolidation

DOI10.1287/trsc.29.3.242zbMath0857.90031OpenAlexW2165489951MaRDI QIDQ4897088

James K. Higginson, James H. Bookbinder

Publication date: 11 March 1997

Published in: Transportation Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/trsc.29.3.242

zbMATH Keywords

optimal policydiscrete-time Markovian decision processcontrol-limit type

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Transportation, logistics and supply chain management (90B06) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40)

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