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Heuristic modeling of supply availabilities in large networks

✍ Scribed by W. M. Patterson III; A. E. Olson Jr.; C. R. Mitchell

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1985
Tongue
English
Weight
455 KB
Volume
32
Category
Article
ISSN
0894-069X

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✦ Synopsis

The objective of this article is to describe heuristic solutions to the problem of modeling inventories at each node of a large network in the context of a computer simulation model of that network. The heuristic solutions are compared with the mathematical solution which is too unwieldy for use in a simulation model. The Weibull cumulative distribution is used as an approximation for the heuristic models. We question whether the good performance of the Weibull is coincidence or perhaps mathematically justifiable.

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