The score of T is A maximum-weight connected subgraph in (G, w) corresponds to an optimal prize-collecting Steiner tree in the transformed instance (G, p, c).
We then discuss the optimal allocation of players and prizes among sub-contests.
For an intermediate case of costly signal manipulation, both patents and prizes may be optimal.
We show that a finite number of prizes cannot be optimal, unless implausible utility and probability weighting functions are assumed.
If I didn't know better, I'd suspect he's simply timing a possible prize-winning in an optimal fashion.
Indeed Robert Mundell, a Nobel-prize winning pioneer of economic thinking about "optimal currency areas", stressed that labour mobility was their crucial defining characteristic.
For the high range, a wide span of prize structures extracts full surplus and is thus optimal.
We obsess over fertility as if women are slot machines who simply need to be primed and pumped at the optimal socially acceptable moment for a baby to shoot out like a prize.
While we do provide a lot of content at the Hult Prize Incubator, we have learned that keeping everything optional is the optimal way to keep teams engaged and productive.
They hope to fill the void of information, asking if prizes are helpful or harmful to science, what's the optimal size of a lab, and how common is research misconduct?
