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