While methods for optimization under uncertainty have been studied intensely over the past
decades, the explicit consideration of the interplay between uncertainty and time has gained …

This paper surveys the literature devoted to online algorithms for conversion problems. We
attempt to unify the terminology and the notation, while introducing the existing results based …

The financial lease is an important financing tool by which the lessee can acquire ownership
of equipment upon the expiration of the lease after making a series of rent payments for the …

Abstract Fujiwara and Iwama [In: The 13th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms
and Computation, pp. 476–488 (2002)] first integrated probability distribution into the …

Small and medium-sized sensitive users are eager to have premium power supply. The
common solution is purchasing mitigation equipment (ME). However, some of they have the …

There are two options for the leasing problem, buying at a high price or leasing at a low
price. Once you choose to purchase the resources, you lose the opportunity to invest in other …

We propose the ski-rental problem with multiple discount options in which there are n
options to rent an equipment. Every option has a rental duration; the longer the duration, the …

Consumer interest in renting brand‐new electronic products has increased recently. Some
retailers started to lease them, but they remarkably depreciate shortly after leasing. If their …

We study multi-unit auctions for perishable goods, in a setting where the supply arrives
online. This is motivated by its application in advertisement auctions on the internet. We give …

Suppose that some job must be done for a period of unspecified duration. The market offers
a selection of devices that can do this job, each characterized by purchase and running …