Average-case competitive analyses for one-way trading
Average-case competitive analyses for one-way trading
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DOI:
10.1007/s10878-009-9239-4
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发表时间:
2008-06
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通讯作者:
H. Fujiwara;K. Iwama;Yoshiyuki Sekiguchi
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作者:
H. Fujiwara;K. Iwama;Yoshiyuki Sekiguchi
Consider a trader who exchanges one dollar into yen and assume that the exchange rate fluctuates within the interval [m,M]. The game ends without advance notice, then the trader is forced to exchange all the remaining dollars at the minimum ratem. El-Yaniv et al. presented the optimalworst-case threat-based strategyfor this game (El-Yaniv et al. 2001). In this paper, under the assumption that the distribution of the maximum exchange rate is known, we provide average-case analyses using all the reasonable optimization measures and derive different optimal strategies for each of them. Remarkable differences in behavior are as follows: Unlike other strategies, theaverage-case threat-based strategythat minimizesE[OPT/ALG] exchangeslittle by little. The maximization ofE[ALG/OPT] and the minimization ofE[OPT]/E[ALG] lead to similar strategies in that both exchangeall at once. However, their timing is different. We also prove minimax theorems with respect to each objective function.