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Erschienen in: OR Spectrum 1/2007

01.01.2007 | Regular Article

Simulation of stochastic demand data streams for network revenue management problems

verfasst von: Alf Kimms, Michael Müller-Bungart

Erschienen in: OR Spectrum | Ausgabe 1/2007

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Abstract

For evaluating heuristic and optimal network revenue management procedures test-instances are needed. As a consequence when trying to create instances for network revenue management problems it turns out that among other things a stream of stochastic demand data is required. But, developing and implementing a generator for demand data that fits to a given network, a given set of products, and a given set of capacity constraints is far from being easy. Since to the best of our knowledge no such demand data generator is available to the public, we specify an algorithm to generate this data and we also make this algorithm available upon request. This, we hope, facilitates future research work.

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Metadaten
Titel
Simulation of stochastic demand data streams for network revenue management problems
verfasst von
Alf Kimms
Michael Müller-Bungart
Publikationsdatum
01.01.2007
Verlag
Springer-Verlag
Erschienen in
OR Spectrum / Ausgabe 1/2007
Print ISSN: 0171-6468
Elektronische ISSN: 1436-6304
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00291-005-0020-5

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