Article ID: | iaor200560 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 16 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 151 |
End Page Number: | 165 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2002 |
Journal: | Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences |
Authors: | Benkherouf Lakdere, Aggoun Lakhdar |
Keywords: | deteriorating items |
In this article, we propose a new continuous-time stochastic inventory model with deterioration and stock-dependent demand items. We then formulate the problem of finding the optimal impulse control schedule that minimizes the total expected return over an infinite horizon, as a quasivariational inequality (QVI) problem. The QVI is show to lead to an (