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In the online metric bipartite matching problem, we are given a set $S$ of server locations in a metric space. Requests arrive one at a time, and on its arrival, we need to immediately and irrevocably match it to a server at a cost which is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Sharath Raghvendra

We present a low-energy deterministic distributed algorithm that computes exact Single-Source Shortest Paths (SSSP) in near-optimal time: it runs in $\tilde{O}(n)$ rounds and each node is awake during only $poly(\log n)$ rounds. When a node…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Mohsen Ghaffari , Anton Trygub

The election is a classical problem in distributed algorithmic. It aims to design and to analyze a distributed algorithm choosing a node in a graph, here, in a tree. In this paper, a class of randomized algorithms for the election is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-07-20 Jean-François Marckert , Nasser Saheb-Djahromi , Akka Zemmari

Randomized rankings have been of recent interest to achieve ex-ante fairer exposure and better robustness than deterministic rankings. We propose a set of natural axioms for randomized group-fair rankings and prove that there exists a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Sruthi Gorantla , Amit Deshpande , Anand Louis

There are many distributed systems which use a leader in their logic. When such systems need to be fault tolerant and the current leader suffers a technical problem, it is necesary to apply a special algorithm in order to choose a new…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Marius Rafailescu

This paper provides an algorithmic framework for obtaining fast distributed algorithms for a highly-dynamic setting, in which *arbitrarily many* edge changes may occur in each round. Our algorithm significantly improves upon prior work in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Keren Censor-Hillel , Neta Dafni , Victor I. Kolobov , Ami Paz , Gregory Schwartzman

We investigate leader election problem via ranking within self-stabilising population protocols. In this scenario, the agent's state space comprises $n$ rank states and $x$ extra states. The initial configuration of $n$ agents consists of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Leszek Gąsieniec , Tytus Grodzicki , Grzegorz Stachowiak

Data transfer in opportunistic Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) must rely on unscheduled sporadic meetings between nodes. The main challenge in these networks is to develop a mechanism based on which nodes can learn to make nearly optimal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Shohreh Shaghaghian , Mark Coates

We study the dispersion problem in anonymous port-labeled graphs: $k \leq n$ mobile agents, each with a unique ID and initially located arbitrarily on the nodes of an $n$-node graph with maximum degree $\Delta$, must autonomously relocate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Debasish Pattanayak , Ajay D. Kshemkalyani , Manish Kumar , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gokarna Sharma

Solitude verification is arguably one of the simplest fundamental problems in distributed computing, where the goal is to verify that there is a unique contender in a network. This paper devises a quantum algorithm that exactly solves the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Seiichiro Tani

We present a deterministic algorithm for solving a wide range of dynamic programming problems in trees in $O(\log D)$ rounds in the massively parallel computation model (MPC), with $O(n^\delta)$ words of local memory per machine, for any…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Chetan Gupta , Rustam Latypov , Yannic Maus , Shreyas Pai , Simo Särkkä , Jan Studený , Jukka Suomela , Jara Uitto , Hossein Vahidi

Distributed allocation finds applications in many scenarios including CPU scheduling, distributed energy resource management, and networked coverage control. In this paper, we propose a fast convergent optimization algorithm with a tunable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Alireza Aghasi

The model of population protocols provides a universal platform to study distributed processes driven by pairwise interactions of anonymous agents. While population protocols present an elegant and robust model for randomized distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Adam Gańczorz , Leszek Gąsieniec , Tomasz Jurdziński , Jakub Kowalski , Grzegorz Stachowiak

This thesis is concerned with the design of distributed algorithms for solving optimization problems. We consider networks where each node has exclusive access to a cost function, and design algorithms that make all nodes cooperate to find…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-03 João F. C. Mota

We propose an asynchronous, decentralized algorithm for consensus optimization. The algorithm runs over a network in which the agents communicate with their neighbors and perform local computation. In the proposed algorithm, each agent can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-06 Tianyu Wu , Kun Yuan , Qing Ling , Wotao Yin , Ali H. Sayed

Ad-hoc radio networks and multiple access channels are classical and well-studied models of distributed systems, with a large body of literature on deterministic algorithms for fundamental communications primitives such as broadcasting and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Artur Czumaj , Peter Davies

Performing random walks in networks is a fundamental primitive that has found applications in many areas of computer science, including distributed computing. In this paper, we focus on the problem of sampling random walks efficiently in a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-02-20 Atish Das Sarma , Danupon Nanongkai , Gopal Pandurangan , Prasad Tetali

We study population protocols: networks of anonymous agents that interact under a scheduler that picks pairs of agents uniformly at random. The _size counting problem_ is that of calculating the exact number $n$ of agents in the population,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-15 David Doty , Mahsa Eftekhari , Othon Michail , Paul G. Spirakis , Michail Theofilatos

Leader election is a fundamental problem in distributed computing, particularly within programmable matter systems, where coordination among simple computational entities is crucial for solving complex tasks. In these systems, particles…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jérémie Chalopin , Shantanu Das , Maria Kokkou

We give optimally fast $O(\log p)$ time (per processor) algorithms for computing round-optimal broadcast schedules for message-passing parallel computing systems. This affirmatively answers difficult questions posed in a SPAA 2022 BA and a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Jesper Larsson Träff