Article ID: | iaor19981494 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 29 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 191 |
End Page Number: | 199 |
Publication Date: | Jul 1997 |
Journal: | IIE Transactions |
Authors: | Fu M.C., Healy K.J. |
Keywords: | optimization, inventory |
Various methods have been proposed to conduct optimization via discrete-event simulation. Prevalent among these are gradient-based algorithms, and more recently, so-called retrospective approaches that deterministically optimize over simulated outcomes. In this paper we compare and contrast the performance of these two approaches for the optimization of a periodic review (