errata: optimal ordering policy for a perishable commodity with fixed lifetime

Errata: Optimal Ordering Policy for a Perishable Commodity with Fixed LifetimeAuthor(s): Brant E. FriesSource: Operations Research, Vol. 25, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1977), p. 1040Published by: INFORMSStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/169880 .

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OPERATIONS RESEARCH, Vol 25, No 6, November-December 1977

Errata

BRANT E. FRIES

Columbia University, New York, New York

(Received May 1977)

IN THE STATEMENT of Proposition 2 (page 59) of [1] the terminal phrase "with cardinality strictly less than 1-2" was omitted. I am in-

debted to Professor Edward Boylan of Rutgers University for identifying this omission. I would also like to correct my omission of an acknowledg- ment of Professors William Maxwell and Hamilton Emmons for their help in the development of this work.

REFERENCE

1. B. E. FRIES, "Optimal Ordering Policy for a Perishable Commodity with Fixed Lifetime," Opns. Res. 23, 46-61 (1975).

Errata

W. T. ZIEMBA

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia

(Received May 1977)

THE AFFILIATIONS of Huang and Ziemba in [1] should have been reversed. Huang is at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, and

Ziemba is at the University of British Columbia.

REFERENCE

1. C. C. HUAG, W. T. ZIEMBA, AND A. BEN-TAL, "Bounds on the Expectation of a Convex Function of a Random Variable: With Applications to Stochastic Programming," Opns. Res. 25, 315-325 (1977).

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