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We study an online learning problem on dynamic pricing and resource allocation, where we make joint pricing and inventory decisions to maximize the overall net profit. We consider the stochastic dependence of demands on the price, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jianyu Xu , Xuan Wang , Yu-Xiang Wang , Jiashuo Jiang

This paper focuses on the linear quadratic control (LQC) design of systems corrupted by both stochastic noise and bounded noise simultaneously. When only of these noises are considered, the LQC strategy leads to stochastic or robust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Xuehui Ma , Shiliang Zhang , Xiaohui Zhang , Jing Xin , Hector Garcia de Marina

Scheduling is a critical part of practical computer systems, and scheduling has also been extensively studied from a theoretical perspective. Unfortunately, there is a gap between theory and practice, as the optimal scheduling policies…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Ziv Scully , Mor Harchol-Balter

This paper studies the remote estimation of multiple Markov sources over a lossy and rate-constrained channel. Unlike most existing studies that treat all source states equally, we exploit the \emph{semantics of information} and consider…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Jiping Luo , Nikolaos Pappas

Problem Definition: Allocating sufficient capacity to cloud services is a challenging task, especially when demand is time-varying, heterogeneous, contains batches, and requires multiple types of resources for processing. In this setting,…

Applications · Statistics 2022-09-21 Eugene Furman , Arik Senderovich , Shane Bergsma , J. Christopher Beck

We present an overview of scalable load balancing algorithms which provide favorable delay performance in large-scale systems, and yet only require minimal implementation overhead. Aimed at a broad audience, the paper starts with an…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Mark van der Boor , Sem C. Borst , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden , Debankur Mukherjee

Motivated by the heterogeneous nature of devices participating in large-scale Federated Learning (FL) optimization, we focus on an asynchronous server-less FL solution empowered by blockchain technology. In contrast to mostly adopted FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Francesc Wilhelmi , Lorenza Giupponi , Paolo Dini

Conventionally, the resource allocation is formulated as an optimization problem and solved online with instantaneous scenario information. Since most resource allocation problems are not convex, the optimal solutions are very difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Jun-Bo Wang , Junyuan Wang , Yongpeng Wu , Jin-Yuan Wang , Huiling Zhu , Min Lin , Jiangzhou Wang

The problem of scheduling jobs and choosing their respective speeds with multiple servers under a sum power constraint to minimize the flow time + energy is considered. This problem is a generalization of the flow time minimization problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Rahul Vaze , Jayakrishnan Nair

We analyse Join-the-Shortest-Queue in a contemporary scaling regime known as the Non-Degenerate Slowdown regime. Join-the-Shortest-Queue (JSQ) is a classical load balancing policy for queueing systems with multiple parallel servers.…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Varun Gupta , Neil Walton

We consider a sequential blocked matching (SBM) model where strategic agents repeatedly report ordinal preferences over a set of services to a central planner. The planner's goal is to elicit agents' true preferences and design a policy…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Nicholas Bishop , Hau Chan , Debmalya Mandal , Long Tran-Thanh

We consider a distributed cloud service deployed at a set of distinct server pools. Arriving jobs are classified into heterogeneous types, in accordance with their setup times which are differentiated at each of the pools. A dispatcher for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-14 Fernando Paganini , Diego Goldsztajn

We consider the problem of simultaneous scheduling and resource allocation of an incoming flow of requests to a set of computing units. By representing each computing unit as a node, we model the overall system as a multi-queue scheme.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Eleftherios Vlahakis , Nikolaos Athanasopoulos , Sean McLoone

Distributed algorithms for both discrete-time and continuous-time linearly solvable optimal control (LSOC) problems of networked multi-agent systems (MASs) are investigated in this paper. A distributed framework is proposed to partition the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Neng Wan , Aditya Gahlawat , Naira Hovakimyan , Evangelos A. Theodorou , Petros G. Voulgaris

This paper proposes a new class of online policies for scheduling in input-buffered crossbar switches. Our policies are throughput optimal for a large class of arrival processes which satisfy strong-law of large numbers. Given an initial…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-02-09 Gagan Raj Gupta , Sujay Sanghavi , Ness B. Shroff

Joint pushing and caching is recognized as an efficient remedy to the problem of spectrum scarcity incurred by tremendous mobile data traffic. In this paper, by exploiting storage resources at end users and predictability of user demand…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Yaping Sun , Ying Cui , Hui Liu

The Join-the-Shortest-Queue (JSQ) policy is among the most widely used load balancing algorithms and has been extensively studied. However, an exact characterization of the system behavior remains challenging. Most prior research has…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Yuanzhe Ma , Siva Theja Maguluri

This paper studies a scheduling control problem for a single-server multiclass queueing network in heavy traffic, operating in a changing environment. The changing environment is modeled as a finite state Markov process that modulates the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-11-30 Amarjit Budhiraja , Arka Ghosh , Xin Liu

In this paper, we study the communication complexity for the problem of computing a conjunctive query on a large database in a parallel setting with $p$ servers. In contrast to previous work, where upper and lower bounds on the…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Paul Beame , Paraschos Koutris , Dan Suciu

To deliver high performance in power limited systems, architects have turned to using heterogeneous systems, either CPU+GPU or mixed CPU-hardware systems. However, in systems with different processor types and task affinities, scheduling…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Zhuo Chen , Diana Marculescu