Managing dynamic inventory systems with product returns: a Markov decision process

DOI10.1007/s10957-012-0192-5zbMath1282.90230MaRDI QIDQ353190

Xiaoming Li

Publication date: 12 July 2013

Published in: Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10957-012-0192-5

zbMATH Keywords

dynamic programming; inventory control; polynomial growth functions; reverse-logistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

90B05: Inventory, storage, reservoirs

90C40: Markov and semi-Markov decision processes

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