Optimal Control of a Make-to-Stock System with Outsourced Production and Price-Sensitive Demand

We consider a make-to-stock system with controllable demand rate (by varying product selling price) and adjustable service rate (by outsourcing production). With one outsourcing alternative and a choice of either high or low price, the system decides at any point in time whether to produce or even o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Liuxin Chen, Gang Hao, Huimin Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/301309