An economics approach to hard computational problems

Science

Volumn 275, Issue 5296, 1997, Pages 51-54

  Huberman, Bernardo A ^a   Lukose, Rajan M ^a   Hogg, Tad ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER NETWORK; ECONOMIC ASPECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK;

EID: 0031035643     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.275.5296.51     Document Type: Article

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