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.