Strategies for sequential search and selection in real time : proceedings of the AMSIMSSIAM joint summer research conference held June 2127, 1990, with support from the National Science Foundation, the National Security Agency, and the Office of Naval Research
- Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c1992
- 1 online resource (viii, 248 p. : ill.)
- Contemporary mathematics v. 125 10983627 .
The AMSIMSSIAM Joint Summer Research Conference in the Mathematical Sciences on the Strategies for Sequential Search and Selection in Real Time was held at the University of Massachusetts, AmherstT.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
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 ; A Markov decision model of a search process ; Properties of optimal strategies in the Poisson version of the twoarmed bandit problem with two hypotheses ; Multiprocessor scheduling and the sequential assignment problem ; Twoperson nonzerosum sequential games with priorities ; Bestchoice 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 ; Multivariate prophet inequalities for negatively dependent random vectors ; A 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 allatonce proof of Ignatov's theorem ; Games against a prophet F Thomas Bruss ; T S Ferguson J P Hardwick and M Tamaki ; Alexander V Gnedin and Minoru Sakaguchi ; Z Govindarajulu ; Stephen Silverman and Arthur Nadas ; Eugene A Feinberg ; E L Presman ; Rhonda Righter ; Elzbieta Z Ferenstein ; Thomas S Ferguson ; Alexander V Gnedin ; Masami Yasuda ; Frans Boshuizen ; Theodore P Hill and Robert P Kertz ; Theodore P Hill and Ulrich Krengel ; D P Kennedy and R P Kertz ; Stephen M Samuels ; Norbert J Schmitz
9780821877135 (online)
Stochastic processes
The AMSIMSSIAM Joint Summer Research Conference in the Mathematical Sciences on the Strategies for Sequential Search and Selection in Real Time was held at the University of Massachusetts, AmherstT.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
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 ; A Markov decision model of a search process ; Properties of optimal strategies in the Poisson version of the twoarmed bandit problem with two hypotheses ; Multiprocessor scheduling and the sequential assignment problem ; Twoperson nonzerosum sequential games with priorities ; Bestchoice 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 ; Multivariate prophet inequalities for negatively dependent random vectors ; A 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 allatonce proof of Ignatov's theorem ; Games against a prophet F Thomas Bruss ; T S Ferguson J P Hardwick and M Tamaki ; Alexander V Gnedin and Minoru Sakaguchi ; Z Govindarajulu ; Stephen Silverman and Arthur Nadas ; Eugene A Feinberg ; E L Presman ; Rhonda Righter ; Elzbieta Z Ferenstein ; Thomas S Ferguson ; Alexander V Gnedin ; Masami Yasuda ; Frans Boshuizen ; Theodore P Hill and Robert P Kertz ; Theodore P Hill and Ulrich Krengel ; D P Kennedy and R P Kertz ; Stephen M Samuels ; Norbert J Schmitz
9780821877135 (online)
Stochastic processes