Confidence-based optimisation for the newsvendor problem under binomial, Poisson and exponential demand

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2014.06.007zbMath1339.90035arXiv1207.5781OpenAlexW1836413999WikidataQ57539181 ScholiaQ57539181MaRDI QIDQ297378

Steven Prestwich, Roberto Rossi, S. Armagan Tarim, Brahim Hnich

Publication date: 27 June 2016

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research, Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.5781

zbMATH Keywords

samplinginventory controlnewsvendor problemdemand estimationconfidence interval analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25) Point estimation (62F10) Sampling theory, sample surveys (62D05) Approximation methods and heuristics in mathematical programming (90C59) Inventory, storage, reservoirs (90B05)

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