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This paper studies a scheduling problem in a parallel machine setting, where each machine must adhere to a predetermined fixed order for processing the jobs. Given $n$ jobs, each with processing times and deadlines, we aim to minimize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Andre Berger , Arman Rouhani , Marc Schröder

Independent set is a fundamental problem in combinatorial optimization. While in general graphs the problem is essentially inapproximable, for many important graph classes there are approximation algorithms known in the offline setting.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Monika Henzinger , Stefan Neumann , Andreas Wiese

Motivated by an application in computational topology, we consider a novel variant of the problem of efficiently maintaining dynamic rooted trees. This variant requires merging two paths in a single operation. In contrast to the standard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-11-13 Loukas Georgiadis , Haim Kaplan , Nira Shafrir , Robert E. Tarjan , Renato F. Werneck

In the moldable job scheduling problem one has to assign a set of $n$ jobs to $m$ machines, in order to minimize the time it takes to process all jobs. Each job is moldable, so it can be assigned not only to one but any number of the equal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Kilian Grage , Klaus Jansen , Felix Ohnesorge

We study the problem of clustering networks whose nodes have imputed or physical positions in a single dimension, for example prestige hierarchies or the similarity dimension of hyperbolic embeddings. Existing algorithms, such as the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Alice Patania , Antoine Allard , Jean-Gabriel Young

In this paper, an operating system scheduling algorithm based on Double DQN (Double Deep Q network) is proposed, and its performance under different task types and system loads is verified by experiments. Compared with the traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xiaoxuan Sun , Yifei Duan , Yingnan Deng , Fan Guo , Guohui Cai , Yuting Peng

We present a randomized algorithm for dynamic graph connectivity. With failure probability less than $1/n^c$ (for any constant $c$ we choose), our solution has worst case running time $O(\log^3 n)$ per edge insertion, $O(\log^4 n)$ per edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Zhengyu Wang

We consider the problem of scheduling $n$ precedence-constrained jobs on $m$ uniformly-related machines in the presence of an arbitrary, fixed communication delay $\rho$. We consider a model that allows job duplication, i.e. processing of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Biswaroop Maiti , Rajmohan Rajaraman , David Stalfa , Zoya Svitkina , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

In this paper we consider several constrained activity scheduling problems in the time and space domains, like finding activity orderings which optimize the values of several objective functions (time scheduling) or finding optimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-06-09 Madalina Ecaterina Andreica , Mugurel Ionut Andreica , Angela Andreica

We study a variant of the classical membership problem in automata theory, which consists of deciding whether a given input word is accepted by a given automaton. We do so under a different perspective, that is, we consider a dynamic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Alejandro Grez , Filip Mazowiecki , Michał Pilipczuk , Gabriele Puppis , Cristian Riveros

Many signal processing problems can be solved by maximizing the fitness of a segmented model over all possible partitions of the data interval. This letter describes a simple but powerful algorithm that searches the exponentially large…

This paper presents a novel idea for the general case of the Common Due-Date (CDD) scheduling problem. The problem is about scheduling a certain number of jobs on a single or parallel machines where all the jobs possess different processing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-07 Abhishek Awasthi , Jörg Lässig , Oliver Kramer

We study the point location problem on dynamic planar subdivisions that allows insertions and deletions of edges. In our problem, the underlying graph of a subdivision is not necessarily connected. We present a data structure of linear size…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Eunjin Oh , Hee-Kap Ahn

Allen's interval algebra is one of the most well-known calculi in qualitative temporal reasoning with numerous applications in artificial intelligence. Recently, there has been a surge of improvements in the fine-grained complexity of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Leif Eriksson , Victor Lagerkvist

We study the complexity of a fundamental algorithm for fairly allocating indivisible items, the round-robin algorithm. For $n$ agents and $m$ items, we show that the algorithm can be implemented in time $O(nm\log(m/n))$ in the worst case.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zihan Li , Pasin Manurangsi , Jonathan Scarlett , Warut Suksompong

We develop a dynamic version of the primal-dual method for optimization problems, and apply it to obtain the following results. (1) For the dynamic set-cover problem, we maintain an $O(f^2)$-approximately optimal solution in $O(f \cdot \log…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Sayan Bhattacharya , Monika Henzinger , Giuseppe F. Italiano

In this paper, we consider the problems for covering multiple intervals on a line. Given a set $B$ of $m$ line segments (called "barriers") on a horizontal line $L$ and another set $S$ of $n$ horizontal line segments of the same length in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Shimin Li , Haitao Wang

Learned indexes leverage machine learning models to accelerate query answering in databases, showing impressive practical performance. However, theoretical understanding of these methods remains incomplete. Existing research suggests that…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Luis Croquevielle , Guang Yang , Liang Liang , Ali Hadian , Thomas Heinis

We give fast, simple, and implementable catalytic logspace algorithms for two fundamental graph problems. First, a randomized catalytic algorithm for $s\to t$ connectivity running in $\widetilde{O}(nm)$ time, and a deterministic catalytic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 James Cook , Edward Pyne

A maximal matching can be maintained in fully dynamic (supporting both addition and deletion of edges) $n$-vertex graphs using a trivial deterministic algorithm with a worst-case update time of O(n). No deterministic algorithm that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-19 Ofer Neiman , Shay Solomon