In the classical secretary problem, the objective is to select the candidate of maximum value among a set of n candidates arriving one by one. The value of the candidates come from an unknown distribution and is revealed at the time the candidate arrives, at which point an irrevocable decision on whether to select the candidate must be made. The well-known solution to this problem, due to Dynki...

This report gives an overview of some parts of the theoretical framework for the Virtual Secretary Project. The Virtual Secretary is a software agent which propagates in a network by the use of user models.

established in his Munich dissertation,* "Ueber die Ausbreitung der Wellen der drahtlosen Télégraphie auf der Erdkugel," for the case where ƒ(0) is continuous in the interval (0, w) and is subject to certain other restrictions, is also capable of representing a function which has a finite number of finite discontinuities in this interval, and that at such a point of discontinuity the integral r...