Provably Near-Optimal Balancing Policies for Multi-Echelon Stochastic Inventory Control Models
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عنوان ژورنال: Mathematics of Operations Research
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0364-765X,1526-5471
DOI: 10.1287/moor.2016.0805