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| List of Figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| Notation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Characteristics of Inventory Systems | |
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| Brief Historical Overview of Inventory Theory | |
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| Examples of Markovian Demand Models | |
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| Contributions | |
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| Plan of the Book | |
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| Discounted Cost Models | |
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| Discounted Cost Models with Backorders | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Review of the Related Literature | |
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| Formulation of the Model | |
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| Dynamic Programming and Optimal Feedback Policy | |
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| Optimality of (s, S)-type Ordering Policies | |
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| Nonstationary Infinite Horizon Problem | |
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| Cyclic Demand Model | |
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| Constrained Models | |
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| Concluding Remarks and Notes | |
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| Discounted Cost Models with Polynomially Growing Surplus Cost | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Formulation of the Model | |
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| Dynamic Programming and Optimal Feedback Policy | |
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| Nonstationary Discounted Infinite Horizon Problem | |
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| Optimality of (s, S)-type Ordering Policies | |
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| Stationary Infinite Horizon Problem | |
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| Concluding Remarks and Notes | |
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| Discounted Cost Models with Lost Sales | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Formulation of the Model | |
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| Optimality of (s,S)-type Ordering Policies | |
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| Extensions | |
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| Numerical Results | |
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| Concluding Remarks and Notes | |
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| Average Cost Models | |
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| Average Cost Models with Backorders | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Formulation of the Model | |
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| Discounted Cost Model Results from Chapter 2 | |
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| Limiting Behavior as the Discount Factor Approaches 1 | |
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| Vanishing Discount Approach | |
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| Verification Theorem | |
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| Concluding Remarks and Notes | |
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| Average Cost Models with Polynomially Growing Surplus Cost | |
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| Formulation of the Problem | |
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| Behavior of the Discounted Cost Model with Respect to the Discount Factor | |
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| Vanishing Discount Approach | |
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| Verification Theorem | |
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| Concluding Remarks and Notes | |
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| Average Cost Models with Lost Sales | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Formulation of the Model | |
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| Discounted Cost Model Results from Chapter 4 | |
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| Limiting Behavior as the Discount Factor Approaches 1 | |
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| Vanishing Discount Approach | |
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| Verification Theorem | |
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| Concluding Remarks and Notes | |
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| Miscellaneous | |
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| Models With Demand Influenced By Promotion | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Formulation of the Model | |
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| Assumptions and Preliminaries | |
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| Structural Results | |
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| Extensions | |
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| Numerical Results | |
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| Concluding Remarks and Notes | |
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| Vanishing Discount Approach Vs. Stationary Distribution Approach | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Statement of the Problem | |
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| Review of Iglehart (1963b) | |
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| An Example | |
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| Asymptotic Bounds on the Optimal Cost Function | |
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| Review of the Veinott and Wagner Paper | |
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| Existence of Minimizing Values of s and S | |
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| Stationary Distribution Approach versus Dynamic Programming and Vanishing Discount Approach | |
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| Concluding Remarks and Notes<p>206</p><l>1</l><l>Part V</l> | |
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| Conclusions and Open Research Problems | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Continuous Functions on Metric Spaces | |
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| Convergence of a Sequence of Functions | |
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| The Arzela-Ascoli Theorems | |
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| Linear Operators | |
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| Miscellany | |
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| Probability | |
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| Integrability | |
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| Conditional Expectation | |
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| Renewal Theorem | |
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| Renewal Reward Processes | |
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| Stochastic Dominance | |
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| Markov Chains | |
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| Convex, Quasi-Convex and K-Convex Functions | |
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| PF<sub>2</sub> Density and Quasi-convex Functions | |
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| Convex and K-convex Functions | |
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| References | |
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| Copyright Permissions | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |