Advances in Decision Sciences
Volume 3 (1999), Issue 2, Pages 163-170
doi:10.1155/S1173912699000097
The videotape rental model
Barry A. Pasternack
and Zvi Drezner
California State University-Fullerton, USA
Abstract
In this paper we study the situation faced by a videotape rental store which must decide how many copies of a new videotape release it should purchase for rental to customers. A model representing this process is developed and contrasted with the classical newsboy problem.