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We consider the problem of online Min-cost Perfect Matching with Delays (MPMD) introduced by Emek et al. (STOC 2016). In this problem, an even number of requests appear in a metric space at different times and the goal of an online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Marcin Bienkowski , Artur Kraska , Paweł Schmidt

In the Min-cost Perfect Matching with Delays (MPMD) problem, 2 m requests arrive over time at points of a metric space. An online algorithm has to connect these requests in pairs, but a decision to match may be postponed till a more…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Marcin Bienkowski , Artur Kraska , Hsiang-Hsuan Liu , Paweł Schmidt

We consider the problem of online Min-cost Perfect Matching with Delays (MPMD) recently introduced by Emek et al, (STOC 2016). This problem is defined on an underlying $n$-point metric space. An adversary presents real-time requests online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Yossi Azar , Ashish Chiplunkar , Haim Kaplan

This paper presents a new research direction for the Min-cost Perfect Matching with Delays (MPMD) - a problem introduced by Emek et al. (STOC'16). In the original version of this problem, we are given an $n$-point metric space, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Mathieu Mari , Michał Pawłowski , Runtian Ren , Piotr Sankowski

In this paper, we study the Min-cost Perfect $k$-way Matching with Delays ($k$-MPMD), recently introduced by Melnyk et al. In the problem, $m$ requests arrive one-by-one over time in a metric space. At any time, we can irrevocably make a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Naonori Kakimura , Tomohiro Nakayoshi

In the online Min-cost Perfect Matching with Delays (MPMD) problem, $m$ requests in a metric space are submitted at different times by an adversary. The goal is to match all requests while (i) minimizing the sum of the distances between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Marc Dufay , Roger Wattenhofer

We investigate the problem of Min-cost Perfect Matching with Delays (MPMD) in which requests are pairwise matched in an online fashion with the objective to minimize the sum of space cost and time cost. Though linear-MPMD (i.e., time cost…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Xingwu Liu , Zhida Pan , Yuyi Wang , Roger Wattenhofer

This paper studies a new online problem, referred to as \emph{min-cost perfect matching with delays (MPMD)}, defined over a finite metric space (i.e., a complete graph with positive edge weights obeying the triangle inequality)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-10 Yuval Emek , Shay Kutten , Roger Wattenhofer

We study the online minimum cost bipartite perfect matching with delays problem. In this problem, $m$ servers and $m$ requests arrive over time, and an online algorithm can delay the matching between servers and requests by paying the delay…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Tung-Wei Kuo

We initiate the study of online problems with set delay, where the delay cost at any given time is an arbitrary function of the set of pending requests. In particular, we study the online min-cost perfect matching with set delay (MPMD-Set)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Lindsey Deryckere , Seeun William Umboh

We consider the problem of online min-cost perfect matching with concave delays. We begin with the single location variant. Specifically, requests arrive in an online fashion at a single location. The algorithm must then choose between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Yossi Azar , Runtian Ren , Danny Vainstein

In this paper, we study $k$-Way Min-cost Perfect Matching with Delays - the $k$-MPMD problem. This problem considers a metric space with $n$ nodes. Requests arrive at these nodes in an online fashion. The task is to match these requests…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Darya Melnyk , Yuyi Wang , Roger Wattenhofer

In this paper, we introduce the problem of Online Matching with Delays and Size-based Costs (OMDSC). The OMDSC problem involves $m$ requests arriving online. At any time, a group can be formed by matching any number of these requests that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Yasushi Kawase , Tomohiro Nakayoshi

We study the online metric matching problem. There are $m$ servers and $n$ requests located in a metric space, where all servers are available upfront and requests arrive one at a time. Upon the arrival of a new request, it needs to be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Mingwei Yang , Sophie H. Yu

Low-distortional metric embeddings are a crucial component in the modern algorithmic toolkit. In an online metric embedding, points arrive sequentially and the goal is to embed them into a simple space irrevocably, while minimizing the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Sujoy Bhore , Arnold Filtser , Csaba D. Tóth

We study the minimum-cost metric perfect matching problem under online i.i.d arrivals. We are given a fixed metric with a server at each of the points, and then requests arrive online, each drawn independently from a known probability…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Anupam Gupta , Guru Guruganesh , Binghui Peng , David Wajc

In the online metric matching problem, $n$ servers and $n$ requests lie in a metric space. Servers are available upfront, and requests arrive sequentially. An arriving request must be matched immediately and irrevocably to an available…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yingxi Li , Ellen Vitercik , Mingwei Yang

Given two point sets $S$ and $T$, the minimum-cost many-to-many matching with demands (MMD) problem is the problem of finding a minimum-cost many-to-many matching between $S$ and $T$ such that each point of $S$ (respectively $T$) is matched…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Fatemeh Rajabi-Alni , Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli

We consider the problem of online service with delay on a general metric space, first presented by Azar, Ganesh, Ge and Panigrahi (STOC 2017). The best known randomized algorithm for this problem, by Azar and Touitou (FOCS 2019), is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Noam Touitou

We investigate deterministic non-preemptive online scheduling with delayed commitment for total completion time minimization on parallel identical machines. In this problem, jobs arrive one-by-one and their processing times are revealed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Uwe Schwiegelshohn
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