Ski rental with two general options

Zvi Lotker; Boaz Patt-Shamir; Dror Rawitz

doi:10.1016/j.ipl.2008.07.009

Ski rental with two general options

Zvi Lotker, Boaz Patt-Shamir, Dror Rawitz

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Abstract

We define and solve a simple extension of the ski-rental problem [A.R. Karlin, M.S. Manasse, L. Rudolph, D.D. Sleator, Competitive snoopy caching, Algorithmica 3 (1) (1988) 77-119]. In the classical version, the algorithm needs to decide when to switch from renting to buying. In our version, no pure buy option is available: even after switching to the buy option, the algorithm needs to pay some reduced rent.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	365-368
Number of pages	4
Journal	Information Processing Letters
Volume	108
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipl.2008.07.009
State	Published - 30 Nov 2008

Keywords

Competitive analysis
Randomized algorithms
Ski rental

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
Signal Processing
Information Systems
Computer Science Applications

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