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We analyze convergence of decentralized cooperative online estimation algorithms by a network of multiple nodes via information exchanging in an uncertain environment. Each node has a linear observation of an unknown parameter with randomly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Jiexiang Wang , Tao Li , Xiwei Zhang

We consider a truthful facility location problem with agents that have private positions on the line of real numbers and known optional preferences over two obnoxious facilities that must be placed at locations chosen from a given set of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Panagiotis Kanellopoulos , Alexandros A. Voudouris

The latency location routing problem integrates the facility location problem and the multi-depot cumulative capacitated vehicle routing problem. This problem involves making simultaneous decisions about depot locations and vehicle routes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yuji Zou , Jin-Kao Hao , Qinghua Wu

We revisit the well-known online traveling salesman problem (OLTSP) and its extension, the online dial-a-ride problem (OLDARP). A server starting at a designated origin in a metric space, is required to serve online requests, and return to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Ya-Chun Liang , Meng-Hsi Li , Chung-Shou Liao , Clifford Stein

We consider a computation offloading system where jobs are processed sequentially at a local server followed by a higher-capacity cloud server. The system offers two service modes, differing in how the processing is split between the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Darin Jeff , Eytan Modiano

This paper concerns the mechanism design for online resource allocation in a strategic setting. In this setting, a single supplier allocates capacity-limited resources to requests that arrive in a sequential and arbitrary manner. Each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Xiaoqi Tan , Bo Sun , Alberto Leon-Garcia , Yuan Wu , Danny H. K. Tsang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in both latency-sensitive online services and cost-sensitive offline workloads. Co-locating these workloads on shared serving instances can improve resource utilization, but directly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Siyu Wu , Zihan Tang , Yuting Zeng , Hui Chen , Guiguang Ding , Tongxuan Liu , Ke Zhang , Hailong Yang

We study the online bounded-delay packet scheduling problem (BDPS), where packets of unit size arrive at a router over time and need to be transmitted over a network link. Each packet has two attributes: a non-negative weight and a deadline…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-01 Martin Böhm , Marek Chrobak , Łukasz Jeż , Fei Li , Jiří Sgall , Pavel Veselý

We study a truthful two-facility location problem in which a set of agents have private positions on the line of real numbers and known approval preferences over two different facilities. Given the locations of the two facilities, the cost…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Panagiotis Kanellopoulos , Alexandros A. Voudouris , Rongsen Zhang

We study the competitive facility location problem, where a firm aims to establish new facilities in a market already occupied by competitors. In this problem, customer behavior is crucial for making optimal location decisions. We explore a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Ba Luat Le , Tien Mai , Thuy Anh Ta , Minh Hoang Ha , Duc Minh Vu

We consider non-cooperative facility location games where both facilities and clients act strategically and heavily influence each other. This contrasts established game-theoretic facility location models with non-strategic clients that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Simon Krogmann , Pascal Lenzner , Louise Molitor , Alexander Skopalik

In this work we study parallelization of online learning, a core primitive in machine learning. In a parallel environment all known approaches for parallel online learning lead to delayed updates, where the model is updated using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-03-23 Daniel Hsu , Nikos Karampatziakis , John Langford , Alex Smola

In a seminal work, Dooly, Goldman, and Scott (STOC 1998; JACM 2001) introduced the classic Online TCP Acknowledgment problem. In this problem, a sequence of $n$ packets arrives over time, and the objective is to minimize both the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Sujoy Bhore , Michał Pawłowski , Seeun William Umboh

We consider the problem of learning and using predictions for warm start algorithms with predictions. In this setting, an algorithm is given an instance of a problem, and a prediction of the solution. The runtime of the algorithm is bounded…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Vaidehi Srinivas , Avrim Blum

We consider the following online optimization problem. We are given a graph $G$ and each vertex of the graph is assigned to one of $\ell$ servers, where servers have capacity $k$ and we assume that the graph has $\ell \cdot k$ vertices.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Monika Henzinger , Stefan Neumann , Harald Räcke , Stefan Schmid

In this paper we consider several related online computation problems. First, we study answering sequences of statistical queries arriving online, and being answered immediately when they arrive with differential privacy. Known matrix…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Aleksandar Nikolov , Haohua Tang , Jonathan Ullman

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

Facility location decisions significantly impact customer behavior and consequently the resulting demand in a wide range of businesses. Furthermore, sequentially realized uncertain demand enforces strategically determining locations under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Beste Basciftci , Shabbir Ahmed , Siqian Shen

We tackle in this paper an online network resource allocation problem with job transfers. The network is composed of many servers connected by communication links. The system operates in discrete time; at each time slot, the administrator…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-17 Ahmed Sid-Ali , Ioannis Lambadaris , Yiqiang Q. Zhao , Gennady Shaikhet , Amirhossein Asgharnia

The facility location problem is a well-known challenge in logistics that is proven to be NP-hard. In this paper we specifically simulate the geographical placement of facilities to provide adequate service to customers. Determining…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Peter Hillmann , Tobias Uhlig , Gabi Dreo Rodosek , Oliver Rose