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                                                     Seminar

             Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
                                  The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Title

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Optimal Policy for an Inventory System under Convex Variable Ordering Cost

 

 

 

 

Speaker

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Dr Miao Song

 

 

Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering

 

 

The University of Hong Kong

 

 

 

Date

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March 4th, 2011 (Friday)

 

 

 

Time

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4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

 

 

 

Venue

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Room 513

 

 

William M.W. Mong Engineering Building

 

 

(Engineering Building Complex Phase 2)

 

 

CUHK

 

 

 

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Abstract:
 

We study the optimal policy for a periodic-review inventory system where the variable ordering cost is defined by a piece-wise linear convex function. The optimal policy is fully characterized for the case without the fixed ordering cost. For the system with a fixed ordering cost, we fully characterize the optimal policy of the model by introducing the notion of strong K,c,q-convexity. We also identify some sufficient conditions under
which the (s,S) policy is optimal


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Biography:
 

Dr Miao Song is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at the University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD from MIT in 2009, a Master's degree from National University of Singapore in 2002 and a Bachelor's degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2001. Her research focuses on the applications of operations research in supply chain management and financial engineering.


************************* ALL ARE WELCOME ************************

 

 

 

Host

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Prof. Sean X. Zhou

Tel

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(852)2609 8336

Email

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zhoux@se.cuhk.edu.hk

 

 

 

Enquiries

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Prof. Nan Chen or Prof. Sean X. Zhou

 

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Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management

 

 

CUHK

Website

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http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~seem5201

Email

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seem5201@se.cuhk.edu.hk

 

 

 

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