| Article ID: | iaor20001578 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 115 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 380 |
| End Page Number: | 391 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1999 |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Dekker Rommert, Vliet Andr van, Archibald Thomas W., Bokkers Menno B. |
| Keywords: | combinatorial analysis |
This paper deals with the problem of minimising the transmission cost in an electronic data interchange system and proves the optimality of a policy which minimizes the slack of partial sums under conditions with practical interpretations. This policy is shown to be useful as a heuristic in more general cases.