| Description |
1 online resource (258 pages) |
| Series |
Contemporary Mathematics ; v. 125 |
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Contemporary Mathematics
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| Contents |
Contents -- Preface -- Generalizations of the Classical Secretary Problem -- Optimal Selection, Learning and Machine Implementation -- Maximizing the Duration of Owning a Relatively Best Object -- On a Best Choice Problem Related to the Poisson Process -- The Secretary Problem: Optimal Selection from Two Streams of Candidates -- On the Game of Googol as the Secretary Problem -- Sequential Scheduling, Search, and Bandit Problems -- A Markov Decision Model of a Search Process |
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Properties of Optimal Strategies in the Poisson Version of the Two-armed Bandit Problem with Two HypothesesMultiprocessor Scheduling and the Sequential Assignment Problem -- Multi-Criteria and Competitive Problems -- Two-person Non-zero-sum Sequential Games with Priorities -- Best-choice Problems with Dependent Criteria -- Multicriteria Extensions of the Best Choice Problem: Sequential Selection without Linear Order -- On a Separation of a Stopping Game Problem for Standard Brownian Motion -- Prophet Inequalities, Records and Extreme Values |
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Multivariate Prophet Inequalities for Negatively Dependent Random VectorsA Survey of Prophet Inequalities in Optimal Stopping Theory -- A Prophet Inequality Related to the Secretary Problem -- Comparisons of Optimal Stopping Values and Expected Suprema for i.i.d. r.v.'s with Costs and Discounting -- An All-at-once Proof of Ignatov's Theorem -- Games Against a Prophet |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Stochastic processes -- Congresses
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Stochastic processes.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ferguson, Thomas S. (Thomas Shelburne), 1929-
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Bruss, F. Thomas
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| ISBN |
9780821877135 |
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0821877135 |
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