Bounds and Heuristics for Optimal Bayesian Inventory Control with Unobserved Lost Sales

DOI10.1287/opre.1090.0726zbMath1226.90009OpenAlexW2163853235MaRDI QIDQ3100476

Li Chen

Publication date: 24 November 2011

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

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/dfa7e5c3846f2dee63f55ab64a5eefc64810b5bc

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian updatingunknown demand distributiondynamic programming/optimal control: boundsinventory/production: heuristicsunobserved lost sales

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation methods and heuristics in mathematical programming (90C59) Inventory, storage, reservoirs (90B05)

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