03-057/4 - Gradient Estimation for a Class of Systems with Bulk Services: A Problem in Public Transportation


  • Authors
    Felisa J. Vazquez-Abad, Université de Montreal; Bernd Heidergott, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • Publication date
    July 7, 2003
  • Keywords
    sensitivity analysis; smoothed perturbation analysis; score function; measure-valued differentiation; bulk servers.
  • JEL
    C15; C61; C44.