Gross, Donald; Kioussis, Leonidas C.; Miller, Douglas R. - In: Management Science 33 (1987) 11, pp. 1453-1468
We develop a method for obtaining approximate steady-state probabilities for large multi-echelon reparable item inventory systems modeled as non-Jacksonian Markovian networks with finite state space. The approximation involves decomposing the network model into smaller overlapping local...