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EOR
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
Dynamic programming analysis of the TV game "Who wants to be a millionaire?"
This paper uses dynamic programming to investigate when contestants should use lifelines or when they should just stop answering in the TV quiz show ‘Who wants to be a millionai...
Federico Perea, Justo Puerto
DMG
2005
Springer
16 years 10 days ago
An Adaptive Distributed Query Processing Grid Service
Grid services provide an important abstract layer on top of heterogeneous components (hardware and software) that take part into a grid environment. We are developing a data grid s...
Fabio Porto, Vinícius F. V. da Silva, M&aac...
FOCS
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Dynamic and Non-uniform Pricing Strategies for Revenue Maximization
We consider the Item Pricing problem for revenue maximization in the limited supply setting, where a single seller with n items caters to m buyers with unknown subadditive valuati...
Tanmoy Chakraborty, Zhiyi Huang, Sanjeev Khanna
WINE
2009
Springer
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16 years 1 months ago
On the Impact of Strategy and Utility Structures on Congestion-Averse Games
Recent results regarding games with congestion-averse utilities (or, congestion-averse games—CAGs) have shown they possess some very desirable properties. Specifically, they hav...
Thomas Voice, Maria Polukarov, Andrew Byde, Nichol...
COLT
2005
Springer
16 years 10 days ago
Trading in Markovian Price Models
We examine a Markovian model for the price evolution of a stock, in which the probability of local upward or downward movement is arbitrarily dependent on the current price itself...
Sham M. Kakade, Michael J. Kearns