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WINE
2007
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
A Theory of Loss-Leaders: Making Money by Pricing Below Cost
We consider the problem of assigning prices to goods of fixed marginal cost in order to maximize revenue in the presence of single-minded customers. We focus in particular on the...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum, T.-H. Hubert Cha...
IAT
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Getting What You Pay For: Is Exploration in Distributed Hill Climbing Really Worth it?
Abstract--The Distributed Stochastic Algorithm (DSA), Distributed Breakout Algorithm (DBA), and variations such as Distributed Simulated Annealing (DSAN), MGM-1, and DisPeL, are di...
Melanie Smith, Roger Mailler
SYNTHESE
2010
147views more  SYNTHESE 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
A resource-bounded agent addresses the newcomb problem
In the Newcomb problem, the standard arguments for taking either one box or both boxes adduce what seem to be relevant considerations, but they are not complete arguments, and att...
John L. Pollock
AIM
2005
13 years 7 months ago
If Not Turing's Test, Then What?
If it is true that good problems produce good science, then it will be worthwhile to identify good problems, and even more worthwhile to discover the attributes that make them goo...
Paul R. Cohen
APPROX
2005
Springer
136views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2005»
14 years 28 days ago
What About Wednesday? Approximation Algorithms for Multistage Stochastic Optimization
The field of stochastic optimization studies decision making under uncertainty, when only probabilistic information about the future is available. Finding approximate solutions to...
Anupam Gupta, Martin Pál, R. Ravi, Amitabh ...