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We consider the online resource minimization problem in which jobs with hard deadlines arrive online over time at their release dates. The task is to determine a feasible schedule on a minimum number of machines. We rigorously study this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-09 Lin Chen , Nicole Megow , Kevin Schewior

We study the fair allocation of indivisible goods among agents with additive valuations. The fair division literature has traditionally focused on two broad classes of fairness notions: envy-based notions and share-based notions. Within the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Hannaneh Akrami , Timo Reichert

The maximin share (MMS) guarantee is a desirable fairness notion for allocating indivisible goods. While MMS allocations do not always exist, several approximation techniques have been developed to ensure that all agents receive a fraction…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Hadi Hosseini , Andrew Searns

Maximizing submodular functions have been studied extensively for a wide range of subset-selection problems. However, much less attention has been given to the role of submodularity in sequence-selection and ranking problems. A…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Guangyi Zhang , Nikolaj Tatti , Aristides Gionis

Imposing fairness in resource allocation incurs a loss of system throughput, known as the Price of Fairness ($PoF$). In wireless scheduling, $PoF$ increases when serving users with very poor channel quality because the scheduler wastes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Apostolos Destounis , Georgios S. Paschos , David Gesbert

The optimal solution to an optimization problem depends on the problem's objective function, constraints, and size. While deep neural networks (DNNs) have proven effective in solving optimization problems, changes in the problem's size,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Nikos A. Mitsiou , Pavlos S. Bouzinis , Panagiotis G. Sarigiannidis , George K. Karagiannidis

The restricted max-min fair allocation problem seeks an allocation of resources to players that maximizes the minimum total value obtained by any player. It is NP-hard to approximate the problem to a ratio less than 2. Comparing the current…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Siu-Wing Cheng , Yuchen Mao

While conventional ranking systems focus solely on maximizing the utility of the ranked items to users, fairness-aware ranking systems additionally try to balance the exposure for different protected attributes such as gender or race. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Omid Memarrast , Ashkan Rezaei , Rizal Fathony , Brian Ziebart

Meeting minimum data rate constraints is a significant challenge in wireless communication systems, particularly as network complexity grows. Traditional deep learning approaches often address these constraints by incorporating penalty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Lili Chen , Changyang She , Jingge Zhu , Jamie Evans

We consider the problems of user selection and power control in wireless interference networks, comprising multiple access points (APs) communicating with a group of user equipment devices (UEs) over a shared wireless medium. To achieve a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Navid NaderiAlizadeh , Mark Eisen , Alejandro Ribeiro

In an online fair allocation problem, a sequence of indivisible items arrives online and needs to be allocated to offline agents immediately and irrevocably. In our paper, we study the online allocation of either goods or chores. We employ…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yuanyuan Wang , Tianze Wei

Ensuring that the right resource is available at the right location and time remains a major challenge for organizations operating large-scale logistics networks. The challenge comes from uneven demand patterns and the resulting asymmetric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Ved Mohan , El Mehdi Er Raqabi , Pascal Van Hentenryck

In this paper we consider multiple constrained resource allocation problems, where the constraints can be specified by formulating activity dependency restrictions or by using game-theoretic models. All the problems are focused on generic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-06-19 Mugurel Ionut Andreica , Madalina Ecaterina Andreica , Costel Visan

This paper studies a federated learning (FL) system, where \textit{multiple} FL services co-exist in a wireless network and share common wireless resources. It fills the void of wireless resource allocation for multiple simultaneous FL…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Jie Xu , Heqiang Wang , Lixing Chen

Fair allocation of indivisible goods studies allocating $m$ goods among $n$ agents in a fair manner. While fairness is a fundamental requirement in many real-world applications, it often conflicts with (economic) efficiency. This raises a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xiaolin Bu , Zihao Li , Shengxin Liu , Jiaxin Song , Biaoshuai Tao

This paper considers distributed resource allocation problems (DRAPs) with a coupled constraint for real-time systems. Based on primal-dual methods, we adopt a control perspective for optimization algorithm design by synthesizing a safe…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Wenwen Wu , Shanying Zhu , Cailian Chen , Xinping Guan

Submodular function maximization is a fundamental combinatorial optimization problem with plenty of applications -- including data summarization, influence maximization, and recommendation. In many of these problems, the goal is to find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Yanhao Wang , Yuchen Li , Francesco Bonchi , Ying Wang

Training and deploying machine learning models that meet fairness criteria for protected groups are fundamental in modern artificial intelligence. While numerous constraints and regularization terms have been proposed in the literature to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Sina Baharlouei , Shivam Patel , Meisam Razaviyayn

Systems for processing big data---e.g., Hadoop, Spark, and massively parallel databases---need to run workloads on behalf of multiple tenants simultaneously. The abundant disk-based storage in these systems is usually complemented by a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Mayuresh Kunjir , Brandon Fain , Kamesh Munagala , Shivnath Babu

Intelligent mobile platforms such as smart vehicles and drones have recently become the focus of attention for onboard deployment of machine learning mechanisms to enable low latency decisions with low risk of privacy breach. However, most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Kai Yang , Yuanming Shi , Zhi Ding