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ESA
2011
Springer
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12 years 4 months ago
On Variants of the Matroid Secretary Problem
We present a number of positive and negative results for variants of the matroid secretary problem. Most notably, we design a constant-factor competitive algorithm for the “rando...
Shayan Oveis Gharan, Jan Vondrák
SODA
2007
ACM
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13 years 6 months ago
Matroids, secretary problems, and online mechanisms
We study a generalization of the classical secretary problem which we call the “matroid secretary problem”. In this problem, the elements of a matroid are presented to an onli...
Moshe Babaioff, Nicole Immorlica, Robert Kleinberg
SODA
2012
ACM
249views Algorithms» more  SODA 2012»
11 years 7 months ago
Improved competitive ratio for the matroid secretary problem
The Matroid Secretary Problem, introduced by Babaioff et al. (2007), is a generalization of the Classical Secretary Problem. In this problem, elements from a matroid are presente...
Sourav Chakraborty, Oded Lachish
ICALP
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Algorithms for Secretary Problems on Graphs and Hypergraphs
We examine several online matching problems, with applications to Internet advertising reservation systems. Consider an edge-weighted bipartite graph G, with partite sets L, R. We...
Martin Pál, Nitish Korula
WINE
2010
Springer
164views Economy» more  WINE 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Incentives in Online Auctions via Linear Programming
Online auctions in which items are sold in an online fashion with little knowledge about future bids are common in the internet environment. We study here a problem in which an auc...
Niv Buchbinder, Kamal Jain, Mohit Singh