Storage Problems When Demand is 'All or Nothing'.

Abstract

An inventory of physical goods or storage space (in a communications system buffer, for instance) often experiences 'all or nothing' demand: if a demand of random size D can be immediately and entirely filled from stock it is satisfied, but otherwise it vanishes. Probabilistic properties of the resulting inventory level are discussed analytically, both for the single buffer and for multiple buffer problems. Numerical results are presented. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA070082

Entities

People

  • Donald P. Gaver
  • P. A. Jacobs

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Buffer Storage
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Inventory
  • Markov Processes
  • Mathematics
  • Military Research
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  • North Carolina
  • Operations Research
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Probability
  • Public Health
  • Random Variables
  • Statistics
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Universities

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  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.

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  • Space