Optimal stopping problem with controlled recall

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 91-108

  Saito, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

DISCRETE TIME; NET PROFITS; OPTIMAL STOPPING PROBLEM; SEARCH COSTS; SEARCH PROCESS;

ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032353724     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0269964800005076     Document Type: Article

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