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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Sequential Search"”.
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Private sequential search and optimization
… and must obtain information on them by sequentially querying an external data provider. The objective of the agent is to obtain an accurate estimate of the optimal solution, x*, while simultaneously ensuring privacy, by making x* difficult to infer for the data provider, who does not …
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Systems' optimization through simulation
… of four modules: The simulation model, A sequential search technique, A "Sampling Routine", and A "Control Module". The first two modules were treated as "black-boxes" and were assumed to be given. The third module controls the sampling process. This module offers dynamic adjustments. of …
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Search for a Moving Target
A mathematical model of a discrete sequential search for a target moving in discrete space is given. The model is based on a Bayesian updating algorithm giving successive probability distributions of target position at intervals throughout the search. Updating allows for target movement and for …
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Storing and Indexing Expressions in Database Systems
… is then described. The implementation includes sequential search as well as an indexing approach. The thesis then presents an experimental performance study that shows the benefit of the indexing approach.
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Methods and Strategies for Evaluating MRI Rf-Induced Heating for Implanted Metallic Stents
… are conducted for validation. Then four search strategies are introduced for assessing the worst-case RF-induced heating based on the simulated results of the multi-configuration devices, and a stent is studied to investigate the feasibility of the search strategies. It is found that the …
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Essays on Consumer Behavior and Demand Analysis
… effect. The second market is a laboratory sequential search market where sellers are allowed to use exploding offers. We show evidence that buyers may be affected by non-monetary incentives, which result in a higher rejection rate for the exploding offers. After accounting for the above …
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Essays in Competition and Investment in Electricity Market
… with different prices. The first paper uses search cost and product differentiation to explain the price dispersion using only data on price. If search costs are present, the search burden can lead to market inefficiency. If product differentiation is the main cause of price dispersion, the …
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Three Essays On The Acquisition Of Information
… purpose of the second essay, entitled "Search and Price Advertising", is to study the role and implications of price advertising when the acquisition of price information is costly to consumers. Advertising is introduced into a random sequential search model. The model generates …
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Internet use and the duration of buying and selling in the residential housing market, economic incentives and voting
… impact of internet use on the duration of non-sequential search in the housing market. We develop a model of partial equilibrium in the housing market which suggests an ambiguous effect on the search duration when internet resources are employed in the search. In this model, the impact of using …
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Essays on Consumer Information Acquisition in Marketing Channels
… the interaction between active consumer search and retailers’ pricing decisions when the search share is disproportionally distributed. I am motivated by the phenomenon of “prominence”. That is, internet retail search traffic tends to be concentrated on a “prominent” retailer, such as …
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Three essays in real estate economics
… estate trading with brokerage that integrates sequential search, two-sided matching, and the competitive entry and effort choice of real estate agents. The equilibrium employment pattern of the model helps to explain the observation that the number of agents is more sensitive to the expected …
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An investigation into price-quality tradeoffs: the effects of order of presentation and presentation of outlying alternatives
… is that between price and quality. This research investigates the effects of two controllable variables on price quality trade offs; the price/quality order in which alternatives are presented and whether alternatives outside the range of buyer expectations (outliers) are presented. The …
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Information Design for Platform-Enabled Operations
… management, ride-hailing, and incentivizing research and development. In the first chapter, continuous-valued uncertainty and optimization methods robust to planner preference are addressed. We consider a planner using information design to manage a population of hybrid workers amidst the …
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Studies in the Algorithmic Pricing of Information Goods and Services
… customers are increasingly price sensitive and search for the best opportunies anywhere. It is almost impossible to manually adjust the prices with rapidly changing demand and competition. Moreover, online shopping platforms also enable sellers to change prices easily and quickly as opposed to …
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Evolution of loosely synchronized spreading codes in code-division multiple-access systems
… of Golay pairs is investigated and a search is carried out over all possible Golay pairs and their mates to find a set of pairs that leads to the satisfaction of a suitable correlation criterion;<br/>- Bent functions, almost bent functions and other second order Boolean functions are …
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Low-density parity-check codes : construction and implementation.
… Since their rediscovery, there has been much research work on LDPC code construction and implementation. LDPC codes can be designed over a wide space with parameters such as girth, rate and length. There is no unique method of constructing LDPC codes. Existing construction methods are limited in …
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Online Auction Markets
… essay, ``A Dynamic Model of Sponsored Search Advertising,''</p><p>investigates sponsored search advertising auctions, a novel approach</p><p>that allocates premium advertising space to advertisers at popular</p><p>websites, such as search engines. Because sponsored …