The Censored Newsvendor and the Optimal Acquisition of Information

DOI10.1287/opre.50.3.517.7752zbMath1163.90327OpenAlexW1999377979MaRDI QIDQ3635112

Arnab Bisi, Xiaomei Ding, Martin L. Puterman

Publication date: 3 July 2009

Published in: Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/c7a1e3a6fedc71c5ad13fbed17f01e6d8d92b064

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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