Article ID: | iaor19931524 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 43 |
Issue: | 6 |
Start Page Number: | 591 |
End Page Number: | 604 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1992 |
Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
Authors: | Mehrez A., Sniedovich M. |
Keywords: | project management |
This paper presents a stochastic allocation model for a sequential financial problem involving the allocation of funds to uncertain future payments. It is shown that under certain conditions the optimal allocation policies are piece-wise linear with the budget available, and that there exists an initimate relationship between these policies and the myopic policies obtained from the solution of a sequence of single-payment problems. A numerical example is provided and, finally, certain technical and methodological issues associated with a chance constraint version of the problem are discussed.