@article{oai:soar-ir.repo.nii.ac.jp:02001215,
 author = {Fujiwara, Hiroshi and Satou, Shunsuke and Fujito, Toshihiro},
 issue = {6},
 journal = {IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRONICS COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER SCIENCES},
 month = {Jun},
 note = {In the 3-slope ski-rental problem, the player is asked to determine a strategy, that is, (i) whether to buy a ski wear and then a ski set separately, or to buy them at once for a discount price, and (ii) when to buy these goods. If the player has not got any thing, he/she can rent it for some price. The objective is to minimize the total cost, under the assumption that the player does not know how many times he/she goes skiing in the future. We reveal that even with a large discount for buying at once available, there is some price setting for which to buy the goods separately is a more reasonable choice. We also show that the performance of the optimal strategy may become arbitrarily worse, when a large discount is offered., Article, IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRONICS COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTER SCIENCES E99A(6) : 1075-1083(2016)},
 pages = {1075--1083},
 title = {Competitive Analysis for the 3-Slope Ski-Rental Problem with the Discount Rate},
 volume = {E99A},
 year = {2016}
}