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The virtualization and softwarization of modern computer networks enables the definition and fast deployment of novel network services called service chains: sequences of virtualized network functions (e.g., firewalls, caches, traffic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Tamas Lukovszki , Stefan Schmid

We study the problem of executing an application represented by a precedence task graph on a parallel machine composed of standard computing cores and accelerators. Contrary to most existing approaches, we distinguish the allocation and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Marcos Amaris , Giorgio Lucarelli , Clément Mommessin , Denis Trystram

We consider the file maintenance problem (also called the online labeling problem) in which n integer items from the set {1,...,r} are to be stored in an array of size m >= n. The items are presented sequentially in an arbitrary order, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Jan Bulánek , Michal Koucký , Michael Saks

Online Resource Allocation addresses the problem of efficiently allocating limited resources to buyers with incomplete knowledge of future requests. In our setting, buyers arrive sequentially requesting a set of items, each with a value…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Dimitris Fotakis , Charalampos Platanos , Thanos Tolias

The online (uniform) buy-at-bulk network design problem asks us to design a network, where the edge-costs exhibit economy-of-scale. Previous approaches to this problem used tree- embeddings, giving us randomized algorithms. Moreover, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Anupam Gupta , R. Ravi , Kunal Talwar , Seeun William Umboh

In the online sorting problem, a sequence of $n$ numbers in $[0, 1]$ (including $\{0,1\}$) have to be inserted in an array of size $m \ge n$ so as to minimize the sum of absolute differences between pairs of numbers occupying consecutive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yossi Azar , Debmalya Panigrahi , Or Vardi

This paper investigates online algorithms for smooth time-varying optimization problems, focusing first on methods with constant step-size, momentum, and extrapolation-length. Assuming strong convexity, precise results for the tracking…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Liam Madden , Stephen Becker , Emiliano Dall'Anese

Consider an online facility assignment problem where a set of facilities $F = \{ f_1, f_2, f_3, \cdots, f_{|F|} \}$ of equal capacity $l$ is situated on a metric space and customers arrive one by one in an online manner on that space. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Saad Al Muttakee , Abu Reyan Ahmed , Md. Saidur Rahman

The logistics industry is widely regarded as a promising application domain for emerging optimization paradigms, including quantum computing. The Rider-Order Assignment problem is a practically motivated optimization problem arising in…

Vector-based algorithms are novel algorithms in optimal any-angle path planning that are motivated by bug algorithms, bypassing free space by directly conducting line-of-sight checks between two queried points, and searching along obstacle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yan Kai Lai

In several applications of real-time matching of demand to supply in online marketplaces, the platform allows for some latency to batch the demand and improve the efficiency. Motivated by these applications, we study the optimal trade-off…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yiding Feng , Rad Niazadeh

Reconfigurable optical topologies are emerging as a promising technology to improve the efficiency of datacenter networks. This paper considers the problem of scheduling opportunistic links in such reconfigurable datacenters. We study the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Janardhan Kulkarni , Stefan Schmid , Paweł Schmidt

We consider the offline sorting buffer problem. The input is a sequence of items of different types. All items must be processed one by one by a server. The server is equipped with a random-access buffer of limited capacity which can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-09-23 Ho-Leung Chan , Nicole Megow , Rob van Stee , Rene Sitters

We consider the online busy time scheduling problem motivated by energy and cost minimization in cloud computing systems. The input is a set of jobs $J=\{1,\dots,n\}$ where each job $j\in J$ has a release time $r_j$, deadline $d_j$, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Susanne Albers , G. Wessel van der Heijden

We study flow scheduling under node capacity constraints. We are given capacitated nodes and an online sequence of jobs, each with a release time and a demand to be routed between two nodes. A schedule specifies which jobs are routed in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Searidang Pa , Rajmohan Rajaraman , David Stalfa

We study the online constrained ranking problem motivated by an application to web-traffic shaping: an online stream of sessions arrive in which, within each session, we are asked to rank items. The challenge involves optimizing the ranking…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Parikshit Shah , Akshay Soni , Troy Chevalier

In this paper we study the mincut problem in the online setting. We consider two distinct models: A) competitive analysis and B) regret analysis. In the competitive setting we consider the vertex arrival model; whenever a new vertex arrives…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Avah Banerjee , Guoli Ding

Due to the ongoing electrification of transport in combination with limited power grid capacities, efficient ways to schedule the charging of electric vehicles (EVs) are needed for the operation of, for example, large parking lots. Common…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-05 Leoni Winschermann , Marco E. T. Gerards , Antonios Antoniadis , Gerwin Hoogsteen , Johann Hurink

The online list labeling problem is an algorithmic primitive with a large literature of upper bounds, lower bounds, and applications. The goal is to store a dynamically-changing set of $n$ items in an array of $m$ slots, while maintaining…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Michael A. Bender , Alex Conway , Martín Farach-Colton , Hanna Komlós , William Kuszmaul , Nicole Wein

We prove new upper and lower bounds for the Online Orthogonal Vectors Problem ($\mathsf{OnlineOV}_{n,d}$). In this problem, a preprocessing algorithm receives $n$ vectors $x_1,\ldots,x_n\in\{0,1\}^d$ and constructs a data structure of size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Karthik Gajulapalli , Alexander Golovnev , Samuel King , Sidhant Saraogi