Optimal and Near-Optimal (s,S) Inventory Policies for Levy Demand Processes
Robin O. Roundy; Gennady Samorodnitsky
RAIRO - Operations Research (2010)
- Volume: 35, Issue: 1, page 37-70
- ISSN: 0399-0559
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