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DETERMINISTIC APPROXIMATIONS FOR INVENTORY MANAGEMENT AT SERVICE FACILITIES

ODED BERMAN Faculty of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 124, Canada
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EDWARD H. KAPLAN Yale School of Organization and Management, New Haven, CT, 06520
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DANIEL G. SHEVISHAK Management Sciences Department, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Boston, MA, 02125
Pages 98-104 | Received 01 Mar 1991, Published online: 31 May 2007

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