计算机模拟法解决报童问题

Newsboy Problem Solved by Computer Analogue Method

本文利用模拟法解决报童问题。模拟就是将所研究的对象用其他手段来加以模仿的一种活动。当采用这种模拟方法来研究问题时,一般来说,人们并不直接观察所研究问题的变化过程,而是先设计出一个与该对象或其变化类似的模型,然后通过模型来间接研究这个对象或变化过程。

This article uses the analogue method to solve the newsboy problem. The so-called simulation is the object which studies one kind of activity which comes with other methods to imitate. When people uses this analogy procedure to study the question, generally speaking, people does not post direct observation to its change process of the research, but first designs one model which is similar to the object or its change and then comes through the model to study this object or its change process indirectly.