Heuristic modeling of supply availabilities in large networks

W. M. Patterson, A. E. Olson and C. R. Mitchell

Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, 1985, vol. 32, issue 1, 155-164

Abstract: 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.

Date: 1985
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