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ski rental problem: a standalone construct

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Online algorithms

the online choice between paying repeatedly to rent and paying once to buy without knowing how long the need lasts, a standard case for competitive analysis.

In online algorithms, ski rental problem refers to the online choice between paying repeatedly to rent and paying once to buy without knowing how long the need lasts, a standard case for competitive analysis. This meaning comes from Karlin (1988) in Algorithmica.[1]

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References

Karlin, A. R., Manasse, M. S., Rudolph, L., & Sleator, D. D. (1988). Competitive snoopy caching. Algorithmica, 3(1-4), 79-119. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01762111

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