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Fairness and action smoothness are two crucial considerations in many online optimization problems, but they have yet to be addressed simultaneously. In this paper, we study a new and challenging setting of fairness-regularized smoothed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Pengfei Li , Yuelin Han , Adam Wierman , Shaolei Ren

In the online packet scheduling problem with deadlines (PacketSchD, for short), the goal is to schedule transmissions of packets that arrive over time in a network switch and need to be sent across a link. Each packet has a deadline,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Pavel Veselý , Marek Chrobak , Łukasz Jeż , Jiří Sgall

This paper considers online optimization for a system that performs a sequence of back-to-back tasks. Each task can be processed in one of multiple processing modes that affect the duration of the task, the reward earned, and an additional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Michael J. Neely

We study online competitive algorithms for the \emph{line chasing problem} in Euclidean spaces $\reals^d$, where the input consists of an initial point $P_0$ and a sequence of lines $X_1,X_2,...,X_m$, revealed one at a time. At each step…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Marcin Bienkowski , Jarosław Byrka , Marek Chrobak , Christian Coester , Łukasz Jeż , Elias Koutsoupias

In this paper, we study a certain class of online optimization problems, where the goal is to maximize a function that is not necessarily concave and satisfies the Diminishing Returns (DR) property under budget constraints. We analyze a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Omid Sadeghi , Reza Eghbali , Maryam Fazel

Online platforms increasingly rely on sequential decision-making algorithms to allocate resources, match users, or control exposure, while facing growing pressure to ensure fairness over time. We study a general online decision-making…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Rui Chen , Oktay Gunluk , Andrea Lodi , Guanyi Wang

In the (discrete) CNN problem, online requests appear as points in $\mathbb{R}^2$. Each request must be served before the next one is revealed. We have a server that can serve a request simply by aligning either its $x$ or $y$ coordinate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-06-20 John Augustine , Nick Gravin

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

We propose an anytime online algorithm for the problem of learning a sequence of adversarial convex cost functions while approximately satisfying another sequence of adversarial online convex constraints. A sequential algorithm is called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Dhruv Sarkar , Abhishek Sinha

We revisit the non-preemptive speed-scaling problem, in which a set of jobs have to be executed on a single or a set of parallel speed-scalable processor(s) between their release dates and deadlines so that the energy consumption to be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-30 Evripidis Bampis , Dimitrios Letsios , Giorgio Lucarelli

We consider the problem of scheduling multiprocessor jobs to minimize the total completion time under the given energy budget. Each multiprocessor job requires more than one processor at the same moment of time. Processors may operate at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Alexander Kononov , Yulia Kovalenko

We consider the online traveling salesman problem on the real line (OLTSPL) in which a salesman begins at the origin, traveling at no faster than unit speed along the real line, and wants to serve a sequence of requests, arriving online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Pei-Chuan Chen , Erik D. Demaine , Chung-Shou Liao , Hao-Ting Wei

The fast growth of communication technology within the concept of smart grids can provide data and control signals from/to all consumers in an online fashion. This could foster more participation for end-user customers. These types of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-11 Arman Alahyari , David Pozo

A natural optimization model that formulates many online resource allocation and revenue management problems is the online linear program (LP) in which the constraint matrix is revealed column by column along with the corresponding…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-10 Shipra Agrawal , Zizhuo Wang , Yinyu Ye

Motivated by applications in the gig economy, we study approximation algorithms for a \emph{sequential pricing problem}. The input is a bipartite graph $G=(I,J,E)$ between individuals $I$ and jobs $J$. The platform has a value of $v_j$ for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Tristan Pollner , Mohammad Roghani , Amin Saberi , David Wajc

Scheduling is an important task allowing parallel systems to perform efficiently and reliably. For modern computation systems, divisible load is a special type of data which can be divided into arbitrary sizes and independently processed in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Fei Wu , Yang Cao , Thomas Robertazzi

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 problem of preemptively scheduling jobs online over time on a single machine to minimize the total flow time. In the traditional clairvoyant scheduling model, the scheduler learns about the processing time of a job at its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Alexander Lindermayr , Jens Schlöter

We consider an online version of the well-studied network utility maximization problem, where users arrive one by one and an operator makes irrevocable decisions for each user without knowing the details of future arrivals. We propose a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Ying Cao , Bo Sun , Danny H. K. Tsang

This paper studies the online optimal control problem with time-varying convex stage costs for a time-invariant linear dynamical system, where a finite lookahead window of accurate predictions of the stage costs are available at each time.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Yingying Li , Xin Chen , Na Li