Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, vol.29, no.5, pp.439-453, 2013 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
In this study, we constructed a stochastic process (X(t)) that expresses a semi-Markovian inventory model of type (s, S) and it is shown that this process is ergodic under some weak conditions. Moreover, we obtained exact and asymptotic expressions for the nth order moments (n = 1,2,3,.) of ergodic distribution of the process X(t), as S - s → ∞. Finally, we tested how close the obtained approximation formulas are to the exact expressions. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.