Robustness Analysis of the Newsboy Problem

Pierre L. Douillet, Besoa Rabenasolo
Gemtex Lab., 9 rue de l'Ermitage, 59100 Roubaix, France
pierre.douillet@ensait.fr, besoa.rabenasolo@ensait.fr

International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Systems Management
IESM 2005, May 16-19, Marrakech (Morocco)

• Abstract
• Keywords
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The newsboy problem
  • 2.1 Description of the newsboy problem
  • 2.2 The cost of uncertainty
• 3 Different models with same average demand
• 4 How to summarize our knowledge ?
  • 4.1 Discussion about hypotheses
  • 4.2 If we nevertheless buy the average demand ?
  • 4.3 Asserting a result
  • 4.4 The Scarf's bound
• 5 Conclusions
• Bibliography
• A. The triangular distribution