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We study a problem of online targets coverage by a drone or a sensor that is equipped with a camera or an antenna of fixed half-angle of view $\alpha$. The targets to be monitored appear at arbitrary positions on a line barrier in an online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Stefan Dobrev , Konstantinos Georgiou , Evangelos Kranakis , Danny Krizanc , Lata Narayanan , Jaroslav Opatrny , Denis Pankratov , Sunil Shende

We consider the reordering buffer problem on a line consisting of n equidistant points. We show that, for any constant delta, an (offline) algorithm that has a buffer (1-delta) k performs worse by a factor of Omega(log n) than an offline…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Marcin Bienkowski , Martin Böhm , Łukasz Jeż , Paweł Laskoś-Grabowski , Jan Marcinkowski , Jiří Sgall , Aleksandra Spyra , Pavel Veselý

Motivated by demand-responsive parking pricing systems, we consider posted-price algorithms for the online metric matching problem. We give an $O(\log n)$-competitive posted-price randomized algorithm in the case that the metric space is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Stephen Arndt , Josh Ascher , Kirk Pruhs

In this work we consider general facility location and social choice problems, in which sets of agents $\mathcal{A}$ and facilities $\mathcal{F}$ are located in a metric space, and our goal is to assign agents to facilities (as well as…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Elliot Anshelevich , Wennan Zhu

We consider the sensitivity of algorithms for the maximum matching problem against edge and vertex modifications. Algorithms with low sensitivity are desirable because they are robust to edge failure or attack. In this work, we show a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Yuichi Yoshida , Samson Zhou

In this study, we investigated several online and semi-online scheduling problems on two hierarchical machines with a common due date to maximize the total early work. For the pure online case, we designed an optimal online algorithm with a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Man Xiao , Xiaoqiao Liu , Weidong Li , Xin Chen , Malgorzata Sterna , Jacek Blazewicz

Semi-online algorithms that are allowed to perform a bounded amount of repacking achieve guaranteed good worst-case behaviour in a more realistic setting. Most of the previous works focused on minimization problems that aim to minimize some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Sebastian Berndt , Kilian Grage , Klaus Jansen , Lukas Johannsen , Maria Kosche

Motivated by applications from gig economy and online marketplaces, we study a two-sided queueing system under joint pricing and matching controls. The queueing system is modeled by a bipartite graph, where the vertices represent customer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Sushil Mahavir Varma , Pornpawee Bumpensanti , Siva Theja Maguluri , He Wang

We study online bipartite edge coloring, with nodes on one side of the graph revealed sequentially. The trivial greedy algorithm is $(2-o(1))$-competitive, which is optimal for graphs of low maximum degree, $\Delta=O(\log n)$ [BNMN IPL'92].…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Joakim Blikstad , Ola Svensson , Radu Vintan , David Wajc

In 2005 Li et al. gave a phi-competitive deterministic online algorithm for scheduling of packets with agreeable deadlines with a very interesting analysis. This is known to be optimal due to a lower bound by Hajek. We claim that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Łukasz Jeż

Tiedemann, et al. [Proc. of WALCOM, LNCS 8973, 2015, pp.210-221] defined multi-objective online problems (as an online version of multi-objective optimization problems) and the competitive analysis for multi-objective online problems and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Shun Hasegawa , Toshiya Itoh

The Work Function Algorithm is the most effective deterministic on-line algorithm for the k-server problem. Koutsoupias and Papadimitriou proved WFA is (2k-1) competitive. However the best known implementation of WFA requires time O(i^2) to…

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The performance of many large-scale and data-intensive distributed systems critically depends on the capacity of the interconnecting network. This paper is motivated by the vision of self-adjusting infrastructures whose resources can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Harald Räcke , Stefan Schmid , Ruslan Zabrodin

Matching markets involve heterogeneous agents (typically from two parties) who are paired for mutual benefit. During the last decade, matching markets have emerged and grown rapidly through the medium of the Internet. They have evolved into…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Will Ma , Pan Xu , Yifan Xu

We consider a stochastic online problem where $n$ applicants arrive over time, one per time step. Upon arrival of each applicant their cost per time step is revealed, and we have to fix the duration of employment, starting immediately. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Yann Disser , John Fearnley , Martin Gairing , Oliver Göbel , Max Klimm , Daniel Schmand , Alexander Skopalik , Andreas Tönnis

We study the problem of matching agents who arrive at a marketplace over time and leave after d time periods. Agents can only be matched while they are present in the marketplace. Each pair of agents can yield a different match value, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Itai Ashlagi , Maximilien Burq , Chinmoy Dutta , Patrick Jaillet , Amin Saberi , Chris Sholley

In the online sorting problem, we have an array $A$ of $n$ cells, and receive a stream of $n$ items $x_1,\dots,x_n\in [0,1]$. When an item arrives, we need to immediately and irrevocably place it into an empty cell. The goal is to minimize…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Yang Hu

For numerous online bipartite matching problems, such as edge-weighted matching and matching under two-sided vertex arrivals, the state-of-the-art fractional algorithms outperform their randomized integral counterparts. This gap is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Niv Buchbinder , Joseph , Naor , David Wajc

We give the first polylogarithmic-competitive randomized online algorithm for the $k$-server problem on an arbitrary finite metric space. In particular, our algorithm achieves a competitive ratio of O(log^3 n log^2 k log log n) for any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-10-10 Nikhil Bansal , Niv Buchbinder , Aleksander Madry , Joseph , Naor

In Cloud systems, we often deal with jobs that arrive and depart in an online manner. Upon its arrival, a job should be assigned to a server. Each job has a size which defines the amount of resources that it needs. Servers have uniform…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-20 Shahin Kamali , Alejandro López-Ortiz