"This book explores the various methods for inventory control and management using optimization techniques, data mining concepts and genetic algorithms. It explores how inventory control and management is very tedious job faced by all organizations in any sector of the economy"--

Part 1: Generic Tools -- Chapter 1: The Stochastic Multi-armed Bandit Problem -- Chapter 2: Reinforcement Learning -- Chapter 3: Optimal Learning and Optimal Design -- Part 2: Price Optimization -- Chapter 4: Dynamic Pricing with Demand Learning: Emerging Topics and State of the Art -- Chapter...

Purpose: Provide a coordination strategy using multiple common replenishment epochs (MCRE) for a single-supplier multi-retailer supply chain. Design/methodology/approach: The demand of a product occurs only with a group of heterogeneous and independent retailers with constant rates, whereas all...