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Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has the potential to significantly reduce the capital and operating expenses, shorten product release cycle, and improve service agility. In this paper, we focus on minimizing the total number of…

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Influence maximization, defined as a problem of finding a set of seed nodes to trigger a maximized spread of influence, is crucial to viral marketing on social networks. For practical viral marketing on large scale social networks, it is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Suqi Cheng , Huawei Shen , Junming Huang , Guoqing Zhang , Xueqi Cheng

This work studies online scheduling algorithms for buffer management, develops new algorithms, and analyzes their performances. Packets arrive at a release time r, with a non-negative weight w and an integer deadline d. At each time step,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Nourhan Sakr , Cliff Stein

We study the problem of maximizing a non-negative monotone submodular objective $f$ subject to the intersection of $k$ arbitrary matroid constraints. The natural greedy algorithm guarantees $(k+1)$-approximation for this problem, and the…

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We provide a comprehensive reply to the comment written by Stefan Boettcher [arXiv:2210.00623] and argue that the comment singles out one particular non-representative example problem, entirely focusing on the maximum cut problem (MaxCut)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Martin J. A. Schuetz , J. Kyle Brubaker , Helmut G. Katzgraber

Consider the following online version of the submodular maximization problem under a matroid constraint: We are given a set of elements over which a matroid is defined. The goal is to incrementally choose a subset that remains independent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Niv Buchbinder , Joseph , Naor , R. Ravi , Mohit Singh

We propose a new approach to competitive analysis in online scheduling by introducing the novel concept of competitive-ratio approximation schemes. Such a scheme algorithmically constructs an online algorithm with a competitive ratio…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-01 Elisabeth Günther , Olaf Maurer , Nicole Megow , Andreas Wiese

In the online hypergraph matching problem, hyperedges of size $k$ over a common ground set arrive online in adversarial order. The goal is to obtain a maximum matching (disjoint set of hyperedges). A na\"ive greedy algorithm for this…

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Migration presents sweeping societal challenges that have recently attracted significant attention from the scientific community. One of the prominent approaches that have been suggested employs optimization and machine learning to match…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Paul Gölz , Ariel D. Procaccia

Motivated by online advertisement and exchange settings, greedy randomized algorithms for the maximum matching problem have been studied, in which the algorithm makes (random) decisions that are essentially oblivious to the input graph. Any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-07-12 T-H. Hubert Chan , Fei Chen , Xiaowei Wu , Zhichao Zhao

Constrained maximization of submodular functions poses a central problem in combinatorial optimization. In many realistic scenarios, a number of agents need to maximize multiple submodular objectives over the same ground set. We study such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Georgios Amanatidis , Georgios Birmpas , Philip Lazos , Stefano Leonardi , Rebecca Reiffenhäuser

We study the online allocation of divisible items to $n$ agents with additive valuations for $p$-mean welfare maximization, a problem introduced by Barman, Khan, and Maiti~(2022). Our algorithmic and hardness results characterize the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Zhiyi Huang , Chui Shan Lee , Xinkai Shu , Zhaozi Wang

Utilizing the capabilities of configurable sensing systems requires addressing difficult information gathering problems. Near-optimal approaches exist for sensing systems without internal states. However, when it comes to optimizing the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Nikolay Atanasov , Jerome Le Ny , Kostas Daniilidis , George J. Pappas

In this paper, we study the \underline{R}obust \underline{o}ptimization for \underline{se}quence \underline{Net}worked \underline{s}ubmodular maximization (RoseNets) problem. We interweave the robust optimization with the sequence networked…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Qihao Shi , Bingyang Fu , Can Wang , Jiawei Chen , Sheng Zhou , Yan Feng , Chun Chen

The Column Subset Selection Problem provides a natural framework for unsupervised feature selection. Despite being a hard combinatorial optimization problem, there exist efficient algorithms that provide good approximations. The drawback of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Bruno Ordozgoiti , Alberto Mozo , Jesús García López de Lacalle

We consider a problem of information structure design in team decision problems and team games. We propose simple, scalable greedy algorithms for adding a set of extra information links to optimize team performance and resilience to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-20 Tyler Summers , Changyuan Li , Maryam Kamgarpour

We propose new algorithms with provable performance for online binary optimization subject to general constraints and in dynamic settings. We consider the subset of problems in which the objective function is submodular. We propose the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Antoine Lesage-Landry , Julien Pallage

We study the problem of estimating a random process from the observations collected by a network of sensors that operate under resource constraints. When the dynamics of the process and sensor observations are described by a state-space…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-24 Abolfazl Hashemi , Mahsa Ghasemi , Haris Vikalo , Ufuk Topcu

We describe a parallel approximation algorithm for maximizing monotone submodular functions subject to hereditary constraints on distributed memory multiprocessors. Our work is motivated by the need to solve submodular optimization problems…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Shivaram Gopal , S M Ferdous , Hemanta K. Maji , Alex Pothen

The priority model was introduced to capture "greedy-like" algorithms. Motivated by the success of advice complexity in the area of online algorithms, the fixed priority model was extended to include advice, and a reduction-based framework…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Joan Boyar , Kim S. Larsen , Denis Pankratov