Optimal Inventory Control and Allocation for Sequential Internet Auctions

DOI10.1142/S0217595915500037zbMath1319.90011OpenAlexW2109951787MaRDI QIDQ5255179

Qiying Hu, Shuren Liu, Yimin Zhu

Publication date: 12 June 2015

Published in: Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1142/s0217595915500037

zbMATH Keywords

Markov decision processinventory controlinternet auctionbase-stock-allocate-all policy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Microeconomic theory (price theory and economic markets) (91B24) Inventory, storage, reservoirs (90B05) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40)

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