Value of information in the Polya urn process

Information Sciences

Volumn 147, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 65-90

  Martin, C F ^a   Ho, Y C ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Game; Polya process; Value of information

Indexed keywords

GAME THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRATEGIC PLANNING; THEOREM PROVING;

COMPUTATIONAL PROBLEMS;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036851013     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-0255(02)00210-4     Document Type: Article

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