| Article ID: | iaor2000594 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 46 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 435 |
| End Page Number: | 443 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1999 |
| Journal: | Naval Research Logistics |
| Authors: | Pyke David F., Baganha Manuel P., Ferrer Geraldo |
| Keywords: | queues: theory, inventory |
We develop a simple algorithm, which does not require convolutions, for computing the distribution of the residual life when the renewal process is discrete. We also analyze the algorithm for the particular case of lattice distributions, and we show how it can apply to an inventory problem.