We introduce a functional representation of time series which allows forecasts to be performed over an unspecified horizon with progressively-revealed information sets. By virtue...
Abstract. Java provides a specification for a user-defined general purpose equivalence operator for objects, but collections such as Set have more stringent requirements. This in...
In automated negotiation systems consisting of selfinterested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding, i.e., impossible to breach. Such contracts do not allow the agents...
Financial derivatives are contracts concerning rights and obligations to engage in future transactions on some underlying financial instrument. A major concern in financial mark...
In this work we focus on efficient heuristics for solving a class of stochastic planning problems that arise in a variety of business, investment, and industrial applications. The...