But, if you're trying to establish an overall determinism, it seems like a significant problem. I don't see the problem. Determinism doesn't require humans to be able to predict the future.

We consider several classical models in deterministic inventory theory: the single-item lot-sizing problem, the joint replenishment problem, and the multistage assembly problem. These inventory models ...

In this paper, we answer an open question in these works by giving deterministic approximation algorithms for these problems. The analysis of our algorithms is simpler than the analysis of the ...