TY - DATA AU - Bruss F Thomas AU - Ferguson Thomas S AU - Samuels Stephen M TI - 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 T2 - Contemporary mathematics SN - 9780821877135 (online) PY - 1992/// CY - Providence, R.I. PB - American Mathematical Society KW - Stochastic processes N1 - 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 UR - http://www.ams.org/conm/125/ ER -