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In the problem of online load balancing on uniformly related machines with bounded migration, jobs arrive online one after another and have to be immediately placed on one of a given set of machines without knowledge about jobs that may…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Marten Maack

We study a sequential resource allocation problem between a fixed number of arms. On each iteration the algorithm distributes a resource among the arms in order to maximize the expected success rate. Allocating more of the resource to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Yuval Dagan , Koby Crammer

We study a resource allocation setting where $m$ discrete items are to be divided among $n$ agents with additive utilities, and the agents' utilities for individual items are drawn at random from a probability distribution. Since common…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Pasin Manurangsi , Warut Suksompong

The most important factors which contribute to the efficiency of game-theoretical algorithms are time and game complexity. In this study, we have offered an elegant method to deal with high complexity of game theoretic multi-objective…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Mahsa Badami , Ali Hamzeh , Sattar Hashemi

We consider a heterogeneous network with mobile edge computing, where a user can offload its computation to one among multiple servers. In particular, we minimize the system-wide computation overhead by jointly optimizing the individual…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Quoc-Viet Pham , Tuan LeAnh , Nguyen H. Tran , Choong Seon Hong

We study a general model on reusable resource allocation under model uncertainty. A heterogeneous population of customers arrive at the decision maker's (DM's) platform sequentially. Upon observing a customer's type, the DM selects an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Xilin Zhang , Wang Chi Cheung

Self-interested behavior in sharing economies often leads to inefficient aggregate outcomes compared to a centrally coordinated allocation, ultimately harming users. Yet, centralized coordination removes individual decision power. This…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Leonardo Pedroso , Andrea Agazzi , W. P. M. H. Heemels , Mauro Salazar

We consider the fundamental problem of selecting $k$ out of $n$ random variables in a way that the expected highest or second-highest value is maximized. This question captures several applications where we have uncertainty about the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Aranyak Mehta , Uri Nadav , Alexandros Psomas , Aviad Rubinstein

We investigate the power of randomized algorithms for the maximum cardinality matching (MCM) and the maximum weight matching (MWM) problems in the online preemptive model. In this model, the edges of a graph are revealed one by one and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-03 Ashish Chiplunkar , Sumedh Tirodkar , Sundar Vishwanathan

We consider a class of distributed submodular maximization problems in which each agent must choose a single strategy from its strategy set. The global objective is to maximize a submodular function of the strategies chosen by each agent.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Bahman Gharesifard , Stephen L. Smith

We consider both finite-state game graphs and recursive game graphs (or pushdown game graphs), that can model the control flow of sequential programs with recursion, with multi-dimensional mean-payoff objectives. In pushdown games two types…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-09 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Yaron Velner

Balanced knockout tournaments are ubiquitous in sports competitions and are also used in decision-making and elections. The traditional computational question, that asks to compute a draw (optimal draw) that maximizes the winning…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen , Josef Tkadlec

In this paper,we consider the restless bandit problem, which is one of the most well-studied generalizations of the celebrated stochastic multi-armed bandit problem in decision theory. However, it is known be PSPACE-Hard to approximate to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-04-29 Quan Liu , Kehao Wang , Lin Chen

We study the Maximum Budgeted Allocation problem, which is the problem of assigning indivisible items to players with budget constraints. In its most general form, an instance of the MBA problem might include many different prices for the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Christos Kalaitzis

We consider load balancing in a network of caching servers delivering contents to end users. Randomized load balancing via the so-called power of two choices is a well-known approach in parallel and distributed systems. In this framework,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Ali Pourmiri , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi

In this work we study the problem of user association and resource allocation to maximize the proportional fairness of a wireless network with limited backhaul capacity. The optimal solution of this problem requires solving a mixed integer…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Jorge Ortin , Jose Ramon Gallego , Maria Canales

When multi-armed bandit (MAB) algorithms allocate pulls among competing arms, the resulting allocation can exhibit huge variation. This is particularly harmful in modern applications such as learning-enhanced platform operations and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yilun Chen , Jiaqi Lu

Resource allocation problems across multiple contests are ubiquitous in adversarial settings, from military operations to market competition. While Colonel Blotto and General Lotto games have provided valuable theoretical foundations for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Keith Paarporn , Jason R. Marden

We consider an online allocation problem that involves a set $P$ of $n$ players and a set $E$ of $m$ indivisible entities over discrete time steps $1,2,\ldots,\tau$. At each time step $t \in [1,\tau]$, for every entity $e \in E$, there is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Siu-Wing Cheng

We consider wireless networks that can be modeled by multiple access channels in which all the terminals are equipped with multiple antennas. The propagation model used to account for the effects of transmit and receive antenna correlations…

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