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ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Minimax analysis for finite-horizon inventory models

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Pages 861-874 | Received 01 Aug 1998, Accepted 01 Oct 1999, Published online: 26 Apr 2007
 

Abstract

We consider stochastic finite-horizon inventory models with discrete distributions that are incompletely specified by selected moments, percentiles, or a combination of moments and percentiles. The objective is to determine an inventory policy that minimizes the maximum expected cost over the class of demand distributions satisfying the specifications described above. We show that many inventory models of this form can be solved by a sequence of linear programs.

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JENNIFER K. RYAN

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