Edit Profile (opens in new tab) Bruss, Franz Thomas Co-Author Distance Author ID: bruss.f-thomas Published as: Bruss, F. Thomas; Bruss, F. T. Homepage: http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~tbruss/ External Links: MGP · Wikidata · GND · IdRef Documents Indexed: 71 Publications since 1978 2 Contributions as Editor Reviewing Activity: 49 Reviews Biographic References: 2 Publications Co-Authors: 26 Co-Authors with 39 Joint Publications 911 Co-Co-Authors all top 5 Co-Authors 34 single-authored 7 Louchard, Guy 6 Ferguson, Thomas S. 3 Rogers, L. C. G. 3 Samuels, Stephen M. 3 Swan, Yvik C. 2 Delbaen, Freddy 2 Robertson, James B. 2 Yor, Marc 1 Aldous, David John 1 Drmota, Michael 1 Duerinckx, Mitia 1 Ernst, Philip A. 1 Grübel, Rudolf 1 Heyvaert, Marie 1 Huang, Dongzhou 1 Jammalamadaka, Sreenivasa Rao 1 Le Cam, Lucien Marie 1 Mahiat, Hervé 1 O’Cinneide, Colm Art 1 Paindaveine, Davy 1 Pierard, Martine 1 Rüschendorf, Ludger 1 Slavtchova-Bojkova, Maroussia Nikiforova 1 Turner, John Wm. 1 Ward, Mark Daniel 1 Zhou, Xian all top 5 Serials 14 Journal of Applied Probability 8 Stochastic Processes and their Applications 6 The Mathematical Scientist 5 The Annals of Probability 5 Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles. Série I 4 European Mathematical Society Newsletter 3 Advances in Applied Probability 3 The Annals of Applied Probability 3 Spektrum der Wissenschaft 2 Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV) 2 Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. DMTCS 1 American Mathematical Monthly 1 Mitteilungen der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV) 1 Theory of Probability and its Applications 1 Cahiers du Centre d’Études de Recherche Opérationnelle 1 Gazette des Mathématiciens 1 Statistics & Probability Letters 1 Communications in Statistics. Stochastic Models 1 Algorithmica 1 Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society - Simon Stevin 1 Contemporary Mathematics 1 Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes - Monograph Series 1 Probability Surveys 1 ACM Transactions on Algorithms 1 Mathematica Applicanda all top 5 Fields 61 Probability theory and stochastic processes (60-XX) 18 Game theory, economics, finance, and other social and behavioral sciences (91-XX) 14 Statistics (62-XX) 10 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) 9 General and overarching topics; collections (00-XX) 4 History and biography (01-XX) 2 Computer science (68-XX) 2 Biology and other natural sciences (92-XX) 1 Mathematical logic and foundations (03-XX) 1 Number theory (11-XX) 1 Functions of a complex variable (30-XX) 1 Approximations and expansions (41-XX) 1 Numerical analysis (65-XX) 1 Systems theory; control (93-XX) 1 Mathematics education (97-XX) Publications by Year all cited Publications top 5 cited Publications Citations contained in zbMATH Open 51 Publications have been cited 359 times in 192 Documents Cited by ▼ Year ▼ Sum the odds to one and stop. Zbl 1005.60055Bruss, F. Thomas 36 2000 A note on extinction criteria for bisexual Galton-Watson processes. Zbl 0568.60073Bruss, F. Thomas 29 1984 A counterpart of the Borel-Cantelli lemma. Zbl 0443.60002Bruss, F. Thomas 21 1980 ‘Wald’s lemma’ for sums of order statistics of i.i.d. random variables. Zbl 0752.62057Bruss, F. Thomas; Robertson, James B. 19 1991 A note on bounds for the odds theorem of optimal stopping. Zbl 1059.60056Bruss, F. Thomas 18 2003 Optimal rules for the sequential selection of monotone subsequences of maximum expected length. Zbl 1005.60056Bruss, F. Thomas; Delbaen, Freddy 17 2001 A unified approach to a class of best choice problems with an unknown number of options. Zbl 0553.60047Bruss, F. Thomas 16 1984 On an optimal selection problem of Cowan and Zabczyk. Zbl 0596.60046Bruss, F. Thomas 13 1987 Selecting a sequence of last successes in independent trials. Zbl 0967.60047Bruss, F. Thomas; Paindaveine, Davy 13 2000 A central limit theorem for the optimal selection process for monotone subsequences of maximum expected length. Zbl 1071.60021Bruss, F. Thomas; Delbaen, Freddy 13 2004 On the multiplicity of the maximum in a discrete random sample. Zbl 1038.62047Bruss, F. Thomas; Grübel, Rudolf 12 2003 Multiple buying or selling with vector offers. Zbl 0905.60028Bruss, F. Thomas; Ferguson, Thomas S. 11 1997 Pascal processes and their characterization. Zbl 0743.60043Bruss, F. T.; Rogers, L. C. G. 10 1991 Minimizing the expected rank with full information. Zbl 0781.60035Bruss, F. Thomas; Ferguson, Thomas S. 10 1993 Embedding optimal selection problems in a Poisson process. Zbl 0745.60040Bruss, F. Thomas; Rogers, L. C. G. 9 1991 Invariant record processes and applications to best choice modelling. Zbl 0665.60049Bruss, F. Thomas 9 1988 On waiting times to populate an environment and a question of statistical inference. Zbl 0937.62120Bruss, F. Thomas; Slavtchova-Bojkova, M. 9 1999 A unified approach to a class of optimal selection problems with an unknown number of options. Zbl 0592.60034Bruss, F. Thomas; Samuels, Stephen M. 7 1987 What is known about Robbins’ problem? Zbl 1081.62059Bruss, F. Thomas 7 2005 On the \(N\)-tower problem and related problems. Zbl 1077.60051Bruss, F. Thomas; Louchard, Guy; Turner, John W. 6 2003 Half-prophets and Robbins’ problem of minimizing the expected rank. Zbl 0858.60045Bruss, F. Thomas; Ferguson, Thomas S. 5 1996 The odds algorithm based on sequential updating and its performance. Zbl 1169.60006Bruss, F. Thomas; Louchard, Guy 5 2009 Resource dependent branching processes and the envelope of societies. Zbl 1308.60103Bruss, F. Thomas; Duerinckx, Mitia 5 2015 Conditions for quasi-stationarity of the Bayes rule in selection problems with an unknown number of rankable options. Zbl 0704.62067Bruss, F. Thomas; Samuels, Stephen M. 5 1990 On the maximum and its uniqueness for geometric random samples. Zbl 0723.60011Bruss, F. Thomas; O’Cinneide, Colm Art 5 1990 Branching processes with random absorbing processes. Zbl 0381.60066Bruss, F. Thomas 5 1978 Stochastic processes with proportional increments and the last-arrival problem. Zbl 1255.60166Bruss, F. Thomas; Yor, Marc 4 2012 A continuous-time approach to Robbins’ problem of minimizing the expected rank. Zbl 1200.62093Bruss, F. Thomas; Swan, Yvik C. 4 2009 A survey of the linear-search problem. Zbl 0662.90042Bruss, F. Thomas; Robertson, James B. 3 1988 On an interval splitting problem. Zbl 0707.60023Bruss, F. Thomas; Jammalamadaka, S. Rao; Zhou, Xian 3 1990 A matrix-analytic approach to the \(N\)-player ruin problem. Zbl 1137.60035Swan, Yvik C.; Bruss, F. Thomas 3 2006 Sequential selection of the \(k\) best out of \(n\) rankable objects. Zbl 1397.60080Bruss, F. Thomas; Louchard, Guy 2 2016 Patterns of relative maxima in random permutations. Zbl 0562.60041Bruss, F. Thomas 2 1984 Limits of any society. (Grenzen einer jeden Gesellschaft.) Zbl 1306.91108Bruss, F. Thomas 2 2014 High-risk and competitive investment models. Zbl 1005.60054Bruss, F. Thomas; Ferguson, Thomas S. 2 2002 Optimal stopping on patterns in strings generated by independent random variables. Zbl 1023.60045Bruss, F. Thomas; Louchard, Guy 2 2003 Odds-theorem and monotonicity. Zbl 1463.60063Bruss, F. Thomas 2 2019 The BRS-inequality and its applications. Zbl 1475.60043Bruss, F. Thomas 2 2021 Strategies for sequential search and selection in real time. Proceedings of the AMS-IMS-SIAM joint summer research conference, held June 21-27, 1990, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. Zbl 0742.00066 1 1992 Unexpected strategies. (Unerwartete Strategien.) Zbl 1288.91008Bruss, F. Thomas 1 1998 On a class of optimal stopping problems with mixed constraints. Zbl 1296.60099Bruss, F. Thomas 1 2010 Inverse auctions, injecting unique minima into random sets. Zbl 1300.91032Bruss, F. Thomas; Louchard, Guy; Ward, Mark Daniel 1 2009 The complete solution of the competitive rank selection problem. Zbl 0918.90002Bruss, F. T.; Drmota, M.; Louchard, G. 1 1998 The Schwarz-Christoffel transformation as a tool in applied probability. Zbl 1076.60070Swan, Yvik; Bruss, F. Thomas 1 2004 Advances in best choice modelling. Zbl 1062.90520Bruss, F. Thomas 1 1987 Playing a trick on uncertainty. Zbl 1060.90659Bruss, F. Thomas 1 2003 Die Kunst der richtigen Entscheidung. Zbl 1060.90661Bruss, F. Thomas 1 2005 How to apply a medicament if its direct efficiency is unknown. Zbl 0412.92007Bruss, F. Thomas 1 1979 Galton-Watson processes and their role as building blocks for branching processes. Zbl 1492.60236Bruss, F. Thomas 1 2022 Testing equality of players in a round-robin tournament. Zbl 1411.91017Bruss, F. Thomas; Ferguson, Thomas S. 1 2018 A mathematical approach to comply with ethical constraints in compassionate use treatments. Zbl 1414.60027Bruss, F. Thomas 1 2018 Galton-Watson processes and their role as building blocks for branching processes. Zbl 1492.60236Bruss, F. Thomas 1 2022 The BRS-inequality and its applications. Zbl 1475.60043Bruss, F. Thomas 2 2021 Odds-theorem and monotonicity. Zbl 1463.60063Bruss, F. Thomas 2 2019 Testing equality of players in a round-robin tournament. Zbl 1411.91017Bruss, F. Thomas; Ferguson, Thomas S. 1 2018 A mathematical approach to comply with ethical constraints in compassionate use treatments. Zbl 1414.60027Bruss, F. Thomas 1 2018 Sequential selection of the \(k\) best out of \(n\) rankable objects. Zbl 1397.60080Bruss, F. Thomas; Louchard, Guy 2 2016 Resource dependent branching processes and the envelope of societies. Zbl 1308.60103Bruss, F. Thomas; Duerinckx, Mitia 5 2015 Limits of any society. (Grenzen einer jeden Gesellschaft.) Zbl 1306.91108Bruss, F. Thomas 2 2014 Stochastic processes with proportional increments and the last-arrival problem. Zbl 1255.60166Bruss, F. Thomas; Yor, Marc 4 2012 On a class of optimal stopping problems with mixed constraints. Zbl 1296.60099Bruss, F. Thomas 1 2010 The odds algorithm based on sequential updating and its performance. Zbl 1169.60006Bruss, F. Thomas; Louchard, Guy 5 2009 A continuous-time approach to Robbins’ problem of minimizing the expected rank. Zbl 1200.62093Bruss, F. Thomas; Swan, Yvik C. 4 2009 Inverse auctions, injecting unique minima into random sets. Zbl 1300.91032Bruss, F. Thomas; Louchard, Guy; Ward, Mark Daniel 1 2009 A matrix-analytic approach to the \(N\)-player ruin problem. Zbl 1137.60035Swan, Yvik C.; Bruss, F. Thomas 3 2006 What is known about Robbins’ problem? Zbl 1081.62059Bruss, F. Thomas 7 2005 Die Kunst der richtigen Entscheidung. Zbl 1060.90661Bruss, F. Thomas 1 2005 A central limit theorem for the optimal selection process for monotone subsequences of maximum expected length. Zbl 1071.60021Bruss, F. Thomas; Delbaen, Freddy 13 2004 The Schwarz-Christoffel transformation as a tool in applied probability. Zbl 1076.60070Swan, Yvik; Bruss, F. Thomas 1 2004 A note on bounds for the odds theorem of optimal stopping. Zbl 1059.60056Bruss, F. Thomas 18 2003 On the multiplicity of the maximum in a discrete random sample. Zbl 1038.62047Bruss, F. Thomas; Grübel, Rudolf 12 2003 On the \(N\)-tower problem and related problems. Zbl 1077.60051Bruss, F. Thomas; Louchard, Guy; Turner, John W. 6 2003 Optimal stopping on patterns in strings generated by independent random variables. Zbl 1023.60045Bruss, F. Thomas; Louchard, Guy 2 2003 Playing a trick on uncertainty. Zbl 1060.90659Bruss, F. Thomas 1 2003 High-risk and competitive investment models. Zbl 1005.60054Bruss, F. Thomas; Ferguson, Thomas S. 2 2002 Optimal rules for the sequential selection of monotone subsequences of maximum expected length. Zbl 1005.60056Bruss, F. Thomas; Delbaen, Freddy 17 2001 Sum the odds to one and stop. Zbl 1005.60055Bruss, F. Thomas 36 2000 Selecting a sequence of last successes in independent trials. Zbl 0967.60047Bruss, F. Thomas; Paindaveine, Davy 13 2000 On waiting times to populate an environment and a question of statistical inference. Zbl 0937.62120Bruss, F. Thomas; Slavtchova-Bojkova, M. 9 1999 Unexpected strategies. (Unerwartete Strategien.) Zbl 1288.91008Bruss, F. Thomas 1 1998 The complete solution of the competitive rank selection problem. Zbl 0918.90002Bruss, F. T.; Drmota, M.; Louchard, G. 1 1998 Multiple buying or selling with vector offers. Zbl 0905.60028Bruss, F. Thomas; Ferguson, Thomas S. 11 1997 Half-prophets and Robbins’ problem of minimizing the expected rank. Zbl 0858.60045Bruss, F. Thomas; Ferguson, Thomas S. 5 1996 Minimizing the expected rank with full information. Zbl 0781.60035Bruss, F. Thomas; Ferguson, Thomas S. 10 1993 Strategies for sequential search and selection in real time. Proceedings of the AMS-IMS-SIAM joint summer research conference, held June 21-27, 1990, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. Zbl 0742.00066 1 1992 ‘Wald’s lemma’ for sums of order statistics of i.i.d. random variables. Zbl 0752.62057Bruss, F. Thomas; Robertson, James B. 19 1991 Pascal processes and their characterization. Zbl 0743.60043Bruss, F. T.; Rogers, L. C. G. 10 1991 Embedding optimal selection problems in a Poisson process. Zbl 0745.60040Bruss, F. Thomas; Rogers, L. C. G. 9 1991 Conditions for quasi-stationarity of the Bayes rule in selection problems with an unknown number of rankable options. Zbl 0704.62067Bruss, F. Thomas; Samuels, Stephen M. 5 1990 On the maximum and its uniqueness for geometric random samples. Zbl 0723.60011Bruss, F. Thomas; O’Cinneide, Colm Art 5 1990 On an interval splitting problem. Zbl 0707.60023Bruss, F. Thomas; Jammalamadaka, S. Rao; Zhou, Xian 3 1990 Invariant record processes and applications to best choice modelling. Zbl 0665.60049Bruss, F. Thomas 9 1988 A survey of the linear-search problem. Zbl 0662.90042Bruss, F. Thomas; Robertson, James B. 3 1988 On an optimal selection problem of Cowan and Zabczyk. Zbl 0596.60046Bruss, F. Thomas 13 1987 A unified approach to a class of optimal selection problems with an unknown number of options. Zbl 0592.60034Bruss, F. Thomas; Samuels, Stephen M. 7 1987 Advances in best choice modelling. Zbl 1062.90520Bruss, F. Thomas 1 1987 A note on extinction criteria for bisexual Galton-Watson processes. Zbl 0568.60073Bruss, F. Thomas 29 1984 A unified approach to a class of best choice problems with an unknown number of options. Zbl 0553.60047Bruss, F. Thomas 16 1984 Patterns of relative maxima in random permutations. Zbl 0562.60041Bruss, F. Thomas 2 1984 A counterpart of the Borel-Cantelli lemma. Zbl 0443.60002Bruss, F. Thomas 21 1980 How to apply a medicament if its direct efficiency is unknown. Zbl 0412.92007Bruss, F. Thomas 1 1979 Branching processes with random absorbing processes. Zbl 0381.60066Bruss, F. Thomas 5 1978 all cited Publications top 5 cited Publications all top 5 Cited by 202 Authors 23 Molina, Manuel 21 Bruss, Franz Thomas 19 Mota, Manuel 14 Gonzalez-Velasco, Miguel 13 Ramos, Alfonso 12 del Puerto, Inés Maria 8 Arlotto, Alessandro 8 Gnedin, Alexander V. 7 Steele, J. Michael 7 Tamaki, Mitsushi 6 Grau, José María 5 Ano, Katsunori 4 Alsmeyer, Gerold 4 Dembińska, Anna 4 Grübel, Rudolf 4 Louchard, Guy 4 Martínez, Rodrigo 4 Rogers, L. C. G. 3 Bayón, Luis 3 Fortuny Ayuso, Pedro 3 Krasnosielska-Kobos, Anna 3 Mazalov, Vladimir Viktorovich 3 Oller-Marcén, Antonio M. 3 Pitman, Jim William 3 Ruiz, Maria M. 3 Rüschendorf, Ludger 3 Seksenbayev, Amirlan 3 Szajowski, Krzysztof J. 2 Allaart, Pieter C. 2 Bíró, Csaba 2 Christensen, Soren 2 Corbacho, Casimiro 2 Delbaen, Freddy 2 Faller, Andreas 2 Hitczenko, Paweł 2 Irle, Albrecht 2 Itoh, Yoshiaki 2 Jasiński, Krzysztof 2 Kabluchko, Zakhar A. 2 Kurushima, Aiko 2 Lytvynov, Eugene W. 2 Ma, Shixia 2 Mahmoud, Hosam M. 2 Malinovsky, Yaakov 2 Matsui, Tomomi 2 Meier, Martin 2 Minuesa, Carmen 2 Rösler, Uwe 2 Sofronov, Georgy Yu. 2 Sögner, Leopold 2 Stadje, Wolfgang 2 Swan, Yvik C. 1 Aldous, David John 1 Alpern, Steve 1 Anagnostopoulos, Aris 1 Baker, David M. 1 Barakat, Haroon Mohamed 1 Barranco-Chamorro, Inmaculada 1 Baryshnikov, Yuliy M. 1 Bayraktar, Erhan 1 Beck, Anatole 1 Beckmann, Martin J. 1 Browne, Sid 1 Bunge, J. A. 1 Bunge, John 1 Cain, Nicholas 1 Camps, Valérie 1 Chen, Robert W. 1 Combettes, Stéphanie 1 Conceição Serra, Maria 1 Curbelo, Israel R. 1 Darji, Udayan B. 1 David, Israel 1 Deheuvels, Paul 1 Dendievel, Rémi 1 Dennert, Florian 1 Diaconis, Persi Warren 1 Dizon-Ross, Rebecca 1 Doumerc, Yan 1 Dousse, Olivier 1 Drmota, Michael 1 Duerinckx, Mitia 1 Durvy, Mathilde 1 Eaton, Julia 1 Egozcue, Martin 1 Eisenberg, Bennett 1 Ernst, Marlena 1 Estrada, Luisa F. 1 Ethier, Stewart N. 1 Fal’ko, I. A. 1 Feldheim, Naomi Dvora 1 Feldheim, Ohad Noy 1 Feldman, William M. 1 Ferenstein, Elżbieta Z. 1 Ferguson, Thomas S. 1 Fiat, Amos 1 Flesch, Janos 1 Fuchs, Michael 1 Gal, Shmuel 1 Gans, Noah ...and 102 more Authors all top 5 Cited in 83 Serials 26 Journal of Applied Probability 17 Stochastic Processes and their Applications 14 Statistics & Probability Letters 7 Advances in Applied Probability 7 The Annals of Applied Probability 5 Stochastics 4 Mathematical Biosciences 4 Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 4 European Journal of Operational Research 4 Bernoulli 3 The Annals of Probability 3 Stochastic Analysis and Applications 3 Statistics 3 Test 3 Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability 3 Mathematica Applicanda 2 Optimization 2 Sequential Analysis 2 Communications in Statistics. Theory and Methods 2 Combinatorics, Probability and Computing 2 Journal of Combinatorial Optimization 2 Stochastic Models 2 Probability Surveys 2 Journal of Theoretical Biology 2 Stochastic Systems 1 American Mathematical Monthly 1 Computers & Mathematics with Applications 1 Discrete Applied Mathematics 1 Discrete Mathematics 1 Israel Journal of Mathematics 1 Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV) 1 Journal of Mathematical Biology 1 Metrika 1 Theory of Probability and its Applications 1 Journal of Functional Analysis 1 Journal of Mathematical Psychology 1 Journal of Soviet Mathematics 1 Mathematics of Operations Research 1 Mathematica Slovaca 1 Operations Research 1 Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 1 Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. Series II 1 Semigroup Forum 1 Theoretical Population Biology 1 Theory and Decision 1 Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 1 Advances in Applied Mathematics 1 Journal of Information & Optimization Sciences 1 Operations Research Letters 1 Acta Applicandae Mathematicae 1 International Journal of Production Research 1 Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica. English Series 1 Probability Theory and Related Fields 1 Statistical Science 1 Algorithmica 1 International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 1 Queueing Systems 1 Annals of Operations Research 1 Random Structures & Algorithms 1 Neural Computation 1 Godishnik na Sofiĭskiya Universitet “Sv. Kliment Okhridski”. Fakultet po Matematika i Informatika 1 Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées. Neuvième Série 1 Expositiones Mathematicae 1 Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 1 ZOR. Zeitschrift für Operations Research 1 Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International 1 Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics 1 Statistical Papers 1 Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York) 1 Electronic Communications in Probability 1 Mathematical Finance 1 Annals of Combinatorics 1 Infinite Dimensional Analysis, Quantum Probability and Related Topics 1 Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics 1 Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences 1 Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society. Second Series 1 Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 1 Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics 1 ALEA. Latin American Journal of Probability and Mathematical Statistics 1 Mathematics and Financial Economics 1 Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. Serie A: Matemáticas. RACSAM 1 Dynamic Games and Applications 1 Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications all top 5 Cited in 18 Fields 167 Probability theory and stochastic processes (60-XX) 61 Statistics (62-XX) 30 Game theory, economics, finance, and other social and behavioral sciences (91-XX) 29 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) 12 Biology and other natural sciences (92-XX) 9 Combinatorics (05-XX) 6 Computer science (68-XX) 3 Numerical analysis (65-XX) 3 Systems theory; control (93-XX) 2 Group theory and generalizations (20-XX) 2 Special functions (33-XX) 1 Partial differential equations (35-XX) 1 Dynamical systems and ergodic theory (37-XX) 1 Operator theory (47-XX) 1 Calculus of variations and optimal control; optimization (49-XX) 1 Geometry (51-XX) 1 Convex and discrete geometry (52-XX) 1 Fluid mechanics (76-XX) Citations by Year Wikidata Timeline The data are displayed as stored in Wikidata under a Creative Commons CC0 License. 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