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The article studies query evaluation in parallel constant time in the CRCW PRAM model. While it is well-known that all relational algebra queries can be evaluated in constant time on an appropriate CRCW PRAM model, this article is…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jens Keppeler , Thomas Schwentick , Christopher Spinrath

This paper considers the basic problem of scheduling jobs online with preemption to maximize the number of jobs completed by their deadline on $m$ identical machines. The main result is an $O(1)$ competitive deterministic algorithm for any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Benjamin Moseley , Kirk Pruhs , Clifford Stein , Rudy Zhou

We consider the classical online scheduling problem P||C_{max} in which jobs are released over list and provide a nearly optimal online algorithm. More precisely, an online algorithm whose competitive ratio is at most (1+\epsilon) times…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-19 Lin Chen , Deshi Ye , Guochuan Zhang

We revisit the online bipartite matching problem on $d$-regular graphs, for which Cohen and Wajc (SODA 2018) proposed an algorithm with a competitive ratio of $1-2\sqrt{H_d/d} = 1-O(\sqrt{(\log d)/d})$ and showed that it is asymptotically…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yilong Feng , Haolong Li , Xiaowei Wu , Shengwei Zhou

We study the $k$-Submodular Cover ($kSC$) problem, a natural generalization of the classical Submodular Cover problem that arises in artificial intelligence and combinatorial optimization tasks such as influence maximization, resource…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Hue T. Nguyen , Tan D. Tran , Nguyen Long Giang , Canh V. Pham

Sequential testing problems involve a complex system with several components, each of which is "working" with some independent probability. The outcome of each component can be determined by performing a test, which incurs some cost. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Rohan Ghuge , Anupam Gupta , Viswanath Nagarajan

We consider a multi-organizational system in which each organization contributes processors to the global pool but also jobs to be processed on the common resources. The fairness of the scheduling algorithm is essential for the stability…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-23 Piotr Skowron , Krzysztof Rzadca

We investigate a novel approach to resilient distributed optimization with quadratic costs in a multi-agent system prone to unexpected events that make some agents misbehave. In contrast to commonly adopted filtering strategies, we draw…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Luca Ballotta , Giacomo Como , Jeff S. Shamma , Luca Schenato

We consider the online $k$-median clustering problem in which $n$ points arrive online and must be irrevocably assigned to a cluster on arrival. As there are lower bound instances that show that an online algorithm cannot achieve a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Benjamin Moseley , Heather Newman , Kirk Pruhs

Motivated by the desire to utilize a limited number of configurable optical switches by recent advances in Software Defined Networks (SDNs), we define an online problem which we call the Caching in Matchings problem. This problem has a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Yaniv Sadeh , Haim Kaplan

This paper combines two key ingredients for online algorithms - competitive analysis (e.g. the competitive ratio) and advice complexity (e.g. the number of advice bits needed to improve online decisions) - in the context of a simple online…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Martin Aleksandrov , Toby Walsh

We consider the online bipartite matching problem on $(k,d)$-bounded graphs, where each online vertex has at most $d$ neighbors, each offline vertex has at least $k$ neighbors, and $k\geq d\geq 2$. The model of $(k,d)$-bounded graphs is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Yilong Feng , Xiaowei Wu , Shengwei Zhou

We study the computation of competitive equilibrium for Fisher markets with $n$ agents and $m$ divisible chores. Competitive equilibria for chores are known to correspond to the nonzero KKT points of a program that minimizes the product of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury , Christian Kroer , Ruta Mehta , Tianlong Nan

We study the problem of metrical service systems with multiple servers (MSSMS), which generalizes two well-known problems -- the $k$-server problem, and metrical service systems. The MSSMS problem is to service requests, each of which is an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Ashish Chiplunkar , Sundar Vishwanathan

We explore the machine-minimizing job scheduling problem, which has a rich history in the line of research, under an online setting. We consider systems with arbitrary job arrival times, arbitrary job deadlines, and unit job execution time.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Mong-Jen Kao , Jian-Jia Chen , Ignaz Rutter , Dorothea Wagner

We extend the Mobile Server Problem, introduced in SPAA'17, to a model where k identical mobile resources, here named servers, answer requests appearing at points in the Euclidean space. In order to reduce communication costs, the positions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Björn Feldkord , Till Knollmann , Manuel Malatyali , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide

Recently, the use and deployment of web services has dramatically increased. This is due to the easiness, interoperability, and flexibility that web services offer to the software systems, which other software structures don't support or…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-12-19 Mamoun M. Jamous , Safaai Bin Deris

This paper is concerned with online caching algorithms for the (n,k)-companion cache, defined by Brehob et. al. In this model the cache is composed of two components: a k-way set-associative cache and a companion fully-associative cache of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Manor Mendel , Steven S. Seiden

In the first part we have shown that, for $L_2$-approximation of functions from a separable Hilbert space in the worst-case setting, linear algorithms based on function values are almost as powerful as arbitrary linear algorithms if the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-15 David Krieg , Mario Ullrich

With multiple identical unit speed servers, the online problem of scheduling jobs that migrate between two phases, limitedly parallelizable or completely sequential, and choosing their respective speeds to minimize the total flow time is…

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