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We study online scheduling to minimize total completion time with explorable uncertainty on single and multiple machines. Each job comes with an upper limit of its processing time, which could be potentially reduced by testing the job,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Bob Krekelberg , Alison Hsiang-Hsuan Liu , Fu-Hong Liu , Prudence W. H. Wong , Xiao-Ou Zhang

The theory of discrete-time online learning has been successfully applied in many problems that involve sequential decision-making under uncertainty. However, in many applications including contractual hiring in online freelancing platforms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Semih Cayci , Swati Gupta , Atilla Eryilmaz

Though competitive analysis is often a very good tool for the analysis of online algorithms, sometimes it does not give any insight and sometimes it gives counter-intuitive results. Much work has gone into exploring other performance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Joan Boyar , Leah Epstein , Lene M. Favrholdt , Kim S. Larsen , Asaf Levin

We consider the classical problem of minimizing the total weighted flow-time for unrelated machines in the online \emph{non-clairvoyant} setting. In this problem, a set of jobs $J$ arrive over time to be scheduled on a set of $M$ machines.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-09 Sungjin Im , Janardhan Kulkarni , Kamesh Munagala , Kirk Pruhs

The online assignment problem plays an important role in operational research and computer science which is why immense attention has been given to improving its solution quality. Due to the incomplete information about the input, it is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Clarence Gabriel R. Kasilag , Pollux M. Rey , Jhoirene B. Clemente

We study a scheduling problem arising in demand response management in smart grid. Consumers send in power requests with a flexible feasible time interval during which their requests can be served. The grid controller, upon receiving power…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Fu-Hong Liu , Hsiang-Hsuan Liu , Prudence W. H. Wong

We study the admission control problem in general networks. Communication requests arrive over time, and the online algorithm accepts or rejects each request while maintaining the capacity limitations of the network. The admission control…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Noga Alon , Yossi Azar , Shai Gutner

We consider the online minimum cost matching problem on the line, in which there are $n$ servers and, at each of $n$ time steps, a request arrives and must be irrevocably matched to a server that has not yet been matched to, with the goal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Eric Balkanski , Yuri Faenza , Noemie Perivier

This paper presents competitive algorithms for a novel class of online optimization problems with memory. We consider a setting where the learner seeks to minimize the sum of a hitting cost and a switching cost that depends on the previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Guanya Shi , Yiheng Lin , Soon-Jo Chung , Yisong Yue , Adam Wierman

The (Non-Preemptive) Throughput Maximization problem is a natural and fundamental scheduling problem. We are given $n$ jobs, where each job $j$ is characterized by a processing time and a time window, contained in a global interval $[0,T)$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Alexander Armbruster , Fabrizio Grandoni , Antoine Tinguely , Andreas Wiese

We consider fundamental scheduling problems motivated by energy issues. In this framework, we are given a set of jobs, each with a release time, deadline and required processing length. The jobs need to be scheduled on a machine so that at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Jessica Chang , Samir Khuller , Koyel Mukherjee

The demand for stringent interactive quality-of-service has intensified in both mobile edge computing (MEC) and cloud systems, driven by the imperative to improve user experiences. As a result, the processing of computation-intensive tasks…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Ngoc Hung Nguyen , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Anh Tuan Nguyen , Nguyen Van Thieu , Hoang Nam Nguyen , Symeon Chatzinotas

Machine learning algorithms are designed to make accurate predictions of the future based on existing data, while online algorithms seek to bound some performance measure (typically the competitive ratio) without knowledge of the future.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Kevin Rao

As foundation models grow in size, fine-tuning them becomes increasingly expensive. While GPU spot instances offer a low-cost alternative to on-demand resources, their volatile prices and availability make deadline-aware scheduling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Linggao Kong , Yuedong Xu , Lei Jiao , Chuan Xu

We consider here the MultiBot problem for the scheduling and the resource parametrization of jobs related to the production or the transportation of different products inside a given time horizon. Those jobs must meet known in advance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Pierre Bergé , Mari Chaikovskaia , Jean-Philippe Gayon , Alain Quilliot

The problem of online packet scheduling to minimize the required conventional grid energy for transmitting a fixed number of packets given a common deadline is considered. The total number of packets arriving within the deadline is known,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Aditya Deshmukh , Rahul Vaze

In online minimum cost matching on the line, $n$ requests appear one by one and have to be matched immediately and irrevocably to a given set of servers, all on the real line. The goal is to minimize the sum of distances from the requests…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Nicole Megow , Lukas Nölke

Resource allocation in distributed and networked systems such as the Cloud is becoming increasingly flexible, allowing these systems to dynamically adjust toward the workloads they serve, in a demand-aware manner. Online balanced…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Harald Räcke , Stefan Schmid , Ruslan Zabrodin

Online scheduling in identical machines with makespan minimization has been a well studied research problem in the literature. In online scheduling, the scheduler receives a list of jobs one by one and assigns each incoming job on the fly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Debasis Dwibedy , Rakesh Mohanty

In the online metric bipartite matching problem, we are given a set $S$ of server locations in a metric space. Requests arrive one at a time, and on its arrival, we need to immediately and irrevocably match it to a server at a cost which is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Sharath Raghvendra