Closed-Form Approximations for Optimal ( r , q ) and ( S , T ) Policies in a Parallel Processing Environment
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inventory system; ( r ; q ) policy; i.i.d. lead times; asymptotic analysis; heavy-traffic limit; closed-form solutions;All these keywords.
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