Download or read book Markovian Demand Inventory Models written by Dirk Beyer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-10-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a superbly researched insight into Markovian demand inventory models. The result of ten years of research, this work covers all aspects of demand inventory where they are modeled by Markov processes. Inventory management is concerned with matching supply with demand and is a central problem in Operations Management. The central problem is to find the amount to be produced or purchased in order to maximize the total expected profit, or minimize the total expected cost.