Ski rental with two general options
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چکیده
We define and solve a simple extension of the ski-rental problem [4]. In the classical version, the algorithm needs to decide when to switch from renting to buying. In our version, no pure buy option is available: even after switching to the buy option, the algorithm needs to pay some reduced rent. We present an online algorithm for this problem with a matching lower bound.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Inf. Process. Lett.
دوره 108 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008