I INTRODUCTION -- II DISCOUNTED COST MODELS -- Discounted Cost Models with Backorders -- Discount Cost Models with Polynomially Growing Surplus Cost -- Discounted Cost Models with Lost Sales -- III AVERAGE COST MODELS -- Average Cost Models with Backorders -- Average Cost Models with...

The book is concerned with the problems of inventory and supply chain decision making with information updating over time. The models considered include inventory decisions with multiple sources and delivery modes, supply-contract design and evaluation, contracts with exercise price,...

This edited volume contains 16 research articles. It presents recent and pressing issues in stochastic processes, control theory, differential games, optimization, and their applications in finance, manufacturing, queueing networks, and climate control. One of the salient features is that the...