.... The early principal results on PHs for DLSMs are found in the studies of Wagner and Whitin (1958) , Zabel (1964) , Eppen et al. (1969) and Blackburn and Kunreuther (1974) . Specifically, we have the following results. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Optimization techniques...

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