The adwords problem: Online keyword matching with budgeted bidders under random permutations

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 71-78

  Devenur, Nikhil R ^a   Hayes, Thomas P ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

Adwords; Learning; Matching; Online; Random permutation

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE RATIO; KEY WORD MATCHING; PAC LEARNING; RANDOM PERMUTATIONS; SEARCH KEYWORD; TRAINING PHASE;

ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; SEARCH ENGINES;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 76749148680     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1566374.1566384     Document Type: Conference Paper

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