The infinite horizon non-stationary stochastic multi-echelon inventory problem and near-myopic policies

DOI10.1016/S0377-2217(00)00275-7zbMath0984.90004OpenAlexW2160616747WikidataQ127977104 ScholiaQ127977104MaRDI QIDQ5952504

Tetsuo Iida

Publication date: 14 May 2002

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0377-2217(00)00275-7

zbMATH Keywords

infinite horizondynamic multi-echelon inventorynear-myopic policiesnon-stationary Markov decision processesnonstationary demands

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inventory, storage, reservoirs (90B05) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40)

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