New approaches to inventory control: algorithms, asymptotics and robustness

The fundamental problem of managing an inventory over time in the presence of stochastic demand is one of the core problems of operations research. This thesis is motivated by the need (in both government and industry) to understand such complex inventory systems used to model many of society's...

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Main Author: Xin, Linwei
Other Authors: Shapiro, Alexander
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/53852