A Problem of Optimal Choice and Assignment

DOI10.1287/OPRE.30.1.172MaRDI QIDQ3939588zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John S. Rose

Publication date 1982

Published in Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.30.1.172

zbMATH Keywords

closed form solutiondominant decision makerinferior decision makeroptimal assignment ruleoptimal object assignmentoptimal selection strategysecond best object selectionsecretary problemsuboptimal strategytwo decision makers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50)

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(13)

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• Optimal choice and assignment of the best \(m\) of \(n\) randomly arriving items
• Multi-criteria optimal stopping methods applied to the portfolio optimisation problem
• The best-or-worst and the postdoc problems
• Finding the second-best candidate under the Mallows model
• A unified approach for solving sequential selection problems
• The best-or-worst and the postdoc problems with random number of candidates
• An optimal algorithm for stopping on the element closest to the center of an interval
• OPTIMAL SELECTION OF THE k-TH BEST CANDIDATE
• An on-line assignment problem with random effectiveness and costly information
• Query-based selection of optimal candidates under the Mallows model
• Optimal stopping methodology for the secretary problem with random queries
• Hiring strategies

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