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.

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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