Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences
Volume 3 (1999), Issue 2, Pages 163-170
doi:10.1155/S1173912699000097
The videotape rental model
California State University-Fullerton, USA
Copyright © 1999 Barry A. Pasternack and Zvi Drezner. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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.