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Section] Section] Section] Section] Section] Section] Section] Section] Section] 0 Some Convexity and Sensitivity Properties of the (r, T) Inventory Control Policy for Stochastic Demand

We show that long-run average cost function for the (R, T) policy with normally distributed demand has a structure similar to that of the corresponding (Q, r) model so that many of the useful properties of the latter model are applicable. In particular, (i) the optimal cost is relatively insensitive to the choice of the reorder interval, T, provided a near-optimal R corresponding to the chosen ...

How Will Section 1115 Medicaid Expansion Demonstrations Inform Federal Policy?

Section 1115 of the Social Security Act allows the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and states to test innovations in Medicaid and other public welfare programs without formal legislative action. Six states currently operate their Medicaid expansions as demonstrations and several more are expected to seek permission to do so. While the current Medicaid expansion demonstrations vary,...

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Section] Section] Section] Section] Section] Section] Section] Section] Section] Section] 0 Estimating Performance Measures in Stochastic Cyclic Schedules

This paper reviews a cyclic scheduling model of repetitive manufacturing environments consisting of exible machines and multi-stage jobs. We explicitly model two system performance measures, throughput and ow time, while incorporating variability arising from uncertainty in operation processing times. We present an iterative approximation scheme to estimate the two moment behavior of our perfor...

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