Lau Hon-Shiang

Hon-Shiang Lau

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Found 39 papers in total
The newsstand problem: A capacitated multiple-product single-period inventory problem
1996
Practically all of the many earlier papers on the newsboy problem consider a single...
A semi-analytical solution for a newsboy problem with mid-period replenishment
1997
This paper is an exploratory study of a very common variation of the classical newsboy...
Estimating the demand distributions of single-period items having frequent stockouts
1996
Very often, the service level of a single-period newsboy-type product is set at such a...
An improved approach for estimating the mean and standard deviation of a subjective probability distribution
1997
The literature offers many formulas for estimating the mean and standard deviation of...
Some results on implementing a multi-item multi-constraint single-period inventory model
1997
Several earlier works have presented formulations and solution procedures for the...
Evaluating the impact of lead time uncertainty in material requirements planning systems
1994
This study uses simulation to examine the effects of lead time uncertainty on MRP...
Optimal ordering policies with two suppliers when lead times and demands are all stochastic
1993
Splitting orders among several suppliers is a common practice. Earlier theoretical...
On balancing variances of station processing times in unpaced lines
1992
For an unpaced line with equal mean station processing time for all stations, the...
A multi-product multi-constraint newsboy problem: Applications, formulation and solution
1995
Practically all of the many earlier papers on the newsboy problem consider a single...
Introducing variable-interval appointment scheduling rules in service systems
1995
The general practice in implementing an appointment scheduling rule (ASR) is to...
A decision support software on bidding for job interviews in college placement offices
1994
Many university placement offices employ a bidding system to allocate on-campus...
Allocating work to a two-stage production system with interstage buffer
1994
Consider a set of discrete tasks whose stochastic task times have specified means and...
Coordinating two suppliers with offsetting lead time and price performance
1994
For a variety of reasons, many firms purchase a given inventory item from two or more...
A system for improving the accuracy of cost estimates
1986
A statistical information system for managing cost estimates in bidding is described....
On estimating skewness in stock returns
1989
In recent years skewness has become a much-discussed factor in financial research, and...
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