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We consider the problem of energy-efficient scheduling across multiple processors with a power-down mechanism. In this setting a set of $n$ jobs with individual release times, deadlines, and processing volumes must be scheduled across $m$…
Integer programs with m constraints are solvable in pseudo-polynomial time in $\Delta$, the largest coefficient in a constraint, when m is a fixed constant. We give a new algorithm with a running time of $O(\sqrt{m}\Delta)^{2m} + O(nm)$,…
$\renewcommand{\Re}{\mathbb{R}}$We present an efficient $O (n + 1/\varepsilon^{4.5})$-time algorithm for computing a $(1+\varepsilon$)-approximation of the minimum-volume bounding box of $n$ points in $\Re^3$. We also present a simpler…
We provide new tradeoffs between approximation and running time for the decremental all-pairs shortest paths (APSP) problem. For undirected graphs with $m$ edges and $n$ nodes undergoing edge deletions, we provide four new approximate…
In this paper we study the classical problem of throughput maximization. In this problem we have a collection $J$ of $n$ jobs, each having a release time $r_j$, deadline $d_j$, and processing time $p_j$. They have to be scheduled…
The paper presents a dynamic solution method for dynamic minimum parametric networks flow. The solution method solves the problem for a special parametric dynamic network with linear lower bound functions of a single parameter. Instead…
We consider the problem of finding collision-free paths for curvature-constrained systems in the presence of obstacles while minimizing execution time. Specifically, we focus on the setting where a planar system can travel at some range of…
In this paper we show a deterministic parallel all-pairs shortest paths algorithm for real-weighted directed graphs. The algorithm has $\tilde{O}(nm+(n/d)^3)$ work and $\tilde{O}(d)$ depth for any depth parameter $d\in [1,n]$. To the best…
Consider a transportation problem with sets of sources and sinks. There are profits and prices on the edges. The goal is to maximize the profit while meeting the following constraints; the total flow going out of a source must not exceed…
Network flow is one of the most studied combinatorial optimization problems having innumerable applications. Any flow on a directed acyclic graph $G$ having $n$ vertices and $m$ edges can be decomposed into a set of $O(m)$ paths. In some…
We present an iterative algorithm for solving a class of \\nonlinear Laplacian system of equations in $\tilde{O}(k^2m \log(kn/\epsilon))$ iterations, where $k$ is a measure of nonlinearity, $n$ is the number of variables, $m$ is the number…
We consider the problem of online preemptive scheduling on a single machine to minimize the total flow time. In clairvoyant scheduling, where job processing times are revealed upon arrival, the Shortest Remaining Processing Time (SRPT)…
Optimal transport (OT) and unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) are central in many machine learning, statistics and engineering applications. 1D OT is easily solved, with complexity O(n log n), but no efficient algorithm was known for 1D…
In the {\sc Min-Sum 2-Clustering} problem, we are given a graph and a parameter $k$, and the goal is to determine if there exists a 2-partition of the vertex set such that the total conflict number is at most $k$, where the conflict number…
The Max-Flow Min-Cut theorem is the classical duality result for the Max-Flow problem, which considers flow of a single commodity. We study a multiple commodity generalization of Max-Flow in which flows are composed of real-valued k-vectors…
We investigate the minimum cost of a wide class of combinatorial optimization problems over random bipartite geometric graphs in $\mathbb{R}^d$ where the edge cost between two points is given by a $p$-th power of their Euclidean distance.…
Given a set of pairwise disjoint polygonal obstacles in the plane, finding an obstacle-avoiding Euclidean shortest path between two points is a classical problem in computational geometry and has been studied extensively. Previously,…
This paper addresses the output-sensitive complexity for linear multi-objective integer minimum cost flow (MOIMCF) problems and provides insights about the time complexity for enumerating all supported nondominated vectors. The paper shows…
We study the fundamental scheduling problem $1\|\sum p_jU_j$. Given a set of $n$ jobs with processing times $p_j$ and deadlines $d_j$, the problem is to select a subset of jobs such that the total processing time is maximized without…
The robust minimum cost flow problem under consistent flow constraints (RobMCF$\equiv$) is a new extension of the minimum cost flow (MCF) problem. In the RobMCF$\equiv$ problem, we consider demand and supply that are subject to uncertainty.…