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In this paper we propose primal-dual algorithms for different variants of the online resource allocation problem with departures. In the basic variant, requests (items) arrive over time to a set of resources (knapsacks) and upon arrival,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yusuf Amidu , Khaled Elbassioni , Adriana F. Gabor

We consider the online unrelated-machine load balancing problem with recourse, where the algorithm is allowed to re-assign prior jobs. We give a $(2+\epsilon)$-competitive algorithm for the problem with $O_\epsilon(\log n)$ amortized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Ravishankar Krishnaswamy , Shi Li , Varun Suriyanarayana

Online allocation problems with resource constraints are central problems in revenue management and online advertising. In these problems, requests arrive sequentially during a finite horizon and, for each request, a decision maker needs to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Santiago Balseiro , Haihao Lu , Vahab Mirrokni

Resource allocation problems in many computer systems can be formulated as mathematical optimization problems. However, finding exact solutions to these problems using off-the-shelf solvers in an online setting is often intractable for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Deepak Narayanan , Fiodar Kazhamiaka , Firas Abuzaid , Peter Kraft , Matei Zaharia

With the popularity of the Internet, traditional offline resource allocation has evolved into a new form, called online resource allocation. It features the online arrivals of agents in the system and the real-time decision-making…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Yifan Xu , Pan Xu , Jianping Pan , Jun Tao

Online optimization problems arise in many resource allocation tasks, where the future demands for each resource and the associated utility functions change over time and are not known apriori, yet resources need to be allocated at every…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-02-06 Reza Eghbali , Jon Swenson , Maryam Fazel

We explore an active learning approach for dynamic fair resource allocation problems. Unlike previous work that assumes full feedback from all agents on their allocations, we consider feedback from a select subset of agents at each epoch of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Riddhiman Bhattacharya , Thanh Nguyen , Will Wei Sun , Mohit Tawarmalani

Traditionally, the problem of apportioning the seats of a legislative body has been viewed as a one-shot process with no dynamic considerations. While this approach is reasonable for some settings, dynamic aspects play an important role in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Javier Cembrano , Jose Correa , Svenja M. Griesbach , Victor Verdugo

We introduce and study spatiotemporal online allocation with deadline constraints ($\mathsf{SOAD}$), a new online problem motivated by emerging challenges in sustainability and energy. In $\mathsf{SOAD}$, an online player completes a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Adam Lechowicz , Nicolas Christianson , Bo Sun , Noman Bashir , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Adam Wierman , Prashant Shenoy

Water-filling is the term for the classic solution to the problem of allocating constrained power to a set of parallel channels to maximize the total data-rate. It is used widely in practice, for example, for power allocation to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-09-12 Yi Gai , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

We study a variation of the canonical online resource allocation problem in which resources are throughput, rather than budget, constrained. As in the classical setting, the decision-maker must assign sequentially arriving jobs to one of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Chamsi Hssaine , Huseyin Topaloglu , Garrett van Ryzin

Resource allocation problems in many computer systems can be formulated as mathematical optimization problems. However, finding exact solutions to these problems using off-the-shelf solvers is often intractable for large problem sizes with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Deepak Narayanan , Fiodar Kazhamiaka , Firas Abuzaid , Peter Kraft , Akshay Agrawal , Srikanth Kandula , Stephen Boyd , Matei Zaharia

We study the problem of fair online resource allocation via non-monetary mechanisms, where multiple agents repeatedly share a resource without monetary transfers. Previous work has shown that every agent can guarantee $1/2$ of their ideal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-27 David X. Lin , Daniel Hall , Giannis Fikioris , Siddhartha Banerjee , Éva Tardos

This work proposes and studies the distributed resource allocation problem in asynchronous and stochastic settings. We consider a distributed system with multiple workers and a coordinating server with heterogeneous computation and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Qiang Li , Michal Yemini , Hoi-To Wai

We introduce a natural online allocation problem that connects several of the most fundamental problems in online optimization. Let $M$ be an $n$-point metric space. Consider a resource that can be allocated in arbitrary fractions to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Nikhil Bansal , Christian Coester

The configuration balancing problem with stochastic requests generalizes many well-studied resource allocation problems such as load balancing and virtual circuit routing. In it, we have $m$ resources and $n$ requests. Each request has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Franziska Eberle , Anupam Gupta , Nicole Megow , Benjamin Moseley , Rudy Zhou

This paper studies the online stochastic resource allocation problem (RAP) with chance constraints and conditional expectation constraints. The online RAP is an integer linear programming problem where resource consumption coefficients are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-01 Yuwei Chen , Zengde Deng , Zaiyi Chen , Yinzhi Zhou , Yujie Chen , Haoyuan Hu

We improve the best known competitive ratio (from 1/4 to 1/2), for the online multi-unit allocation problem, where the objective is to maximize the single-price revenue. Moreover, the competitive ratio of our algorithm tends to 1, as the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-13 Sourav Chakraborty , Nikhil Devanur

We consider robust resource allocation of services in Clouds. More specifically, we consider the case of a large public or private Cloud platform that runs a relatively small set of large and independent services. These services are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Olivier Beaumont , Lionel Eyraud-Dubois , Paul Renaud-Goud

Unsplittable flow problems cover a wide range of telecommunication and transportation problems and their efficient resolution is key to a number of applications. In this work, we study algorithms that can scale up to large graphs and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-29 François Lamothe , Emmanuel Rachelson , Alain Haït , Cedric Baudoin , Jean-Baptiste Dupe