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We study a stylized dynamic assortment planning problem during a selling season of finite length $T$. At each time period, the seller offers an arriving customer an assortment of substitutable products and the customer makes the purchase…
The most commonly developed inventory models are the classical economic order quantity model, is governed by the integer order differential equations. We want to come out from the traditional thought i.e. classical order inventory model…
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Inventory control with unknown demand distribution is considered, with emphasis placed on the case involving discrete nonperishable items. We focus on an adaptive policy which in every period uses, as much as possible, the optimal…
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