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Today's queueing network systems are more rapidly evolving and more complex than those of even a few years ago. The goal of this paper is to study customers' behavior in an unobservable Markovian M/M/1 queue where consumers have to choose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-11 Tesnim Naceur , Yezekael Hayel

Consider an important meeting to be held in a team-based organization. Taking availability constraints into account, an online scheduling poll is being used in order to decide upon the exact time of the meeting. Decisions are to be taken…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Robert Bredereck , Jiehua Chen , Rolf Niedermeier , Svetlana Obraztsova , Nimrod Talmon

We consider a multi-stage stochastic optimization problem originally introduced by Cygan et al. (2013), studying how a single server should prioritize stochastically departing customers. In this setting, our objective is to determine an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Danny Segev

We consider a queueing system consisting of two non-identical exponential servers, where each server has its own dedicated queue and serves the customers in that queue FCFS. Customers arrive according to a Poisson process and join the queue…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-20 Jori Selen , Ivo J. B. F. Adan , Stella Kapodistria , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden

Ubiquitous mobile computing have enabled ride-hailing services to collect vast amounts of behavioral data of riders and drivers and optimize supply and demand matching in real time. While these mobility service providers have some degree of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Takuma Oda

This paper investigates the equilibrium convergence properties of a proposed algorithm for potential games with continuous strategy spaces in the presence of feedback delays, a main challenge in multi-agent systems that compromises the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-20 Yuanhanqing Huang , Jianghai Hu

For online resource allocation problems, we propose a new demand arrival model where the sequence of arrivals contains both an adversarial component and a stochastic one. Our model requires no demand forecasting; however, due to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Dawsen Hwang , Patrick Jaillet , Vahideh Manshadi

In this paper, equilibrium strategies and optimal balking strategies of customers in a constant retrial queue with multiple vacations and the $N$-policy under two information levels, respectively, are investigated. We assume that there is…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-05-04 Zhen Wang , Liwei Liu , Yiqiang Q. Zhao

A multiclass queue with many servers is considered, where customers make a join-or-leave decision upon arrival based on queue length information, without knowing the scheduling policy or the state of other queues. A game theoretic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-07 Rami Atar , Subhamay Saha

Synthesis of finite-state controllers from high-level specifications in multi-agent systems can be reduced to solving multi-player concurrent games over finite graphs. The complexity of solving such games with qualitative objectives for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Shaull Almagor , Rajeev Alur , Suguman Bansal

This paper studies a class of strongly monotone games involving non-cooperative agents that optimize their own time-varying cost functions. We assume that the agents can observe other agents' historical actions and choose actions that best…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Zifan Wang , Yi Shen , Michael M. Zavlanos , Karl H. Johansson

We consider a strategic game, where players submit jobs to a machine that executes all jobs in a way that minimizes energy while respecting the given deadlines. The energy consumption is then charged to the players in some way. Each player…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Christoph Dürr , Łukasz Jeż , Óscar C. Vásquez

The overall aim of our research is to develop techniques to reason about the equilibrium properties of multi-agent systems. We model multi-agent systems as concurrent games, in which each player is a process that is assumed to act…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Julian Gutierrez , Aniello Murano , Giuseppe Perelli , Sasha Rubin , Thomas Steeples , Michael Wooldridge

Inspired by the path coordination problem arising from robo-taxis, warehouse management, and mixed-vehicle routing problems, we model a group of heterogeneous players responding to stochastic demands as a congestion game under Markov…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Sarah H. Q. Li , Dan Calderone , Behcet Acikmese

We consider the allocation of limited resources to heterogeneous customers who arrive in an online fashion. We would like to allocate the resources "fairly", so that no group of customers is marginalized in terms of their overall service…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Will Ma , Pan Xu , Yifan Xu

We consider the job assignment problem in a multi-server system consisting of $N$ parallel processor sharing servers, categorized into $M$ ($\ll N$) different types according to their processing capacity or speed. Jobs of random sizes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Arpan Mukhopadhyay , A. Karthik , Ravi R. Mazumdar

In a heterogeneous wireless cellular network, each user may be covered by multiple access points such as macro/pico/relay/femto base stations (BS). An effective approach to maximize the sum utility (e.g., system throughput) in such a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Mingyi Hong , Zhi-Quan Luo

Security games model strategic interactions in adversarial real-world applications. Such applications often involve extremely large but highly structured strategy sets (e.g., selecting a distribution over all patrol routes in a given…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Jakub Černý , Chun Kai Ling , Christian Kroer , Garud Iyengar

We consider a heterogeneous distributed service system, consisting of $n$ servers with unknown and possibly different processing rates. Jobs with unit mean and independent processing times arrive as a renewal process of rate $\lambda n$,…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-07-15 David Gamarnik , John N. Tsitsiklis , Martin Zubeldia