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CE
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Programming contest strategy
Andrew Trotman, Chris Handley
EOR
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Dynamic programming analysis of the TV game "Who wants to be a millionaire?"
This paper uses dynamic programming to investigate when contestants should use lifelines or when they should just stop answering in the TV quiz show ‘Who wants to be a millionai...
Federico Perea, Justo Puerto
SIGCSE
1993
ACM
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13 years 8 months ago
The internet programming contest: a report and philosophy
Programming contests can provide a high-profile method for attracting interest in computer science. We describe our philosophy as it pertains to the purpose and merits of program...
Vivek Khera, Owen L. Astrachan, David Kotz
ACSC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Informatics olympiads: challenges in programming and algorithm design
The International Olympiad in Informatics is a worldwide contest for high school students, with a strong focus on creativity and ingenuity in algorithm design. Here we describe th...
Benjamin A. Burton
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Money, glory and cheap talk: analyzing strategic behavior of contestants in simultaneous crowdsourcing contests on TopCoder.com
Crowdsourcing is a new Web phenomenon, in which a firm takes a function once performed in-house and outsources it to a crowd, usually in the form of an open contest. Designing ef...
Nikolay Archak