Strategies for sequential search and selection in real time : [electronic resource] proceedings of the AMS-IMS-SIAM joint summer research conference held June 21-27, 1990, with support from the National Science Foundation, the National Security Agency, and the Office of Naval Research / F. Thomas Bruss, Thomas S. Ferguson, Stephen M. Samuels, editors.

"The AMS-IMS-SIAM 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, Amherst"--T.p. verso.

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Optimal selection, learning and machine implementation / F. Thomas Bruss -- Maximizing the duration of owning a relatively best object / T. S. Ferguson, J. P. Hardwick and M. Tamaki -- On a best choice problem related to the Poisson process / Alexander V. Gnedin and Minoru Sakaguchi -- The secretary problem: optimal selection from two streams of candidates / Z. Govindarajulu -- On the game of googol as the secretary problem / Stephen Silverman and Arthur N�adas -- A Markov decision model of a search process / Eugene A. Feinberg -- Properties of optimal strategies in the Poisson version of the two-armed bandit problem with two hypotheses / �E. L. Presman -- Multiprocessor scheduling and the sequential assignment problem / Rhonda Righter -- Two-person non-zero-sum sequential games with priorities / El�zbieta Z. Ferenstein -- Best-choice problems with dependent criteria / Thomas S. Ferguson -- Multicriteria extensions of the best choice problem: sequential selection without linear order / Alexander V. Gnedin -- On a separation of a stopping game problem for standard Brownian motion / Masami Yasuda -- Multivariate prophet inequalities for negatively dependent random vectors / Frans Boshuizen -- A survey of prophet inequalities in optimal stopping theory / Theodore P. Hill and Robert P. Kertz -- A prophet inequality related to the secretary problem / Theodore P. Hill and Ulrich Krengel -- Comparisons of optimal stopping values and expected suprema for i.i.d.\ r.v.'s with costs and discounting / D. P. Kennedy and R. P. Kertz -- An all-at-once proof of Ignatov's theorem / Stephen M. Samuels -- Games against a prophet / Norbert J. Schmitz --

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