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Scheduling on a Stochastic Number of Machines
Moritz Buchem, Franziska Eberle, Hugo Kooki Kasuya Rosado +2
We consider a new scheduling problem on parallel identical machines in which the number of machines is initially not known, but it follows a given probability distribution. Only af…
Designing Exploration Contracts
Martin Hoefer, Conrad Schecker, Kevin Schewior
We study a natural application of contract design in the context of sequential exploration problems. In our principal-agent setting, a search task is delegated to an agent. The age…
Quickly Determining Who Won an Election
Lisa Hellerstein, Naifeng Liu, Kevin Schewior
This paper considers elections in which voters choose one candidate each, independently according to known probability distributions. A candidate receiving a strict majority (absol…