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We introduce and study a class of online problems called online smoothed demand management $(\texttt{OSDM})$, motivated by paradigm shifts in grid integration and energy storage for large energy consumers such as data centers. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Adam Lechowicz , Nicolas Christianson , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Adam Wierman , Prashant Shenoy

The coordinated and efficient distribution of limited resources by individual decisions is a fundamental, unsolved problem. When individuals compete for road capacities, time, space, money, goods, etc., they normally make decisions based on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dirk Helbing , Martin Schoenhof , Daniel Kern

Load balancing is vital for the efficient and long-term operation of cloud data centers. With virtualization, post (reactive) migration of virtual machines after allocation is the traditional way for load balancing and consolidation.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Wenhong Tian , Minxian Xu , Guangyao Zhou , Kui Wu , Chengzhong Xu , Rajkumar Buyya

We study stochastic online resource allocation: a decision maker needs to allocate limited resources to stochastically-generated sequentially-arriving requests in order to maximize reward. At each time step, requests are drawn independently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Santiago Balseiro , Christian Kroer , Rachitesh Kumar

This text presents an introduction to an emerging paradigm in control of dynamical systems and differentiable reinforcement learning called online nonstochastic control. The new approach applies techniques from online convex optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Elad Hazan , Karan Singh

A classical problem in power systems is to allocate in-coming (elastic or inelastic) demands without violating the operating constraints of electric networks in an online fashion. Although online decision problems have been well-studied in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Areg Karapetyan , Majid Khonji , Chi-Kin Chau , Khaled Elbassioni

An acceptable response time of a server is an important aspect in many client-server applications; this is evident in situations in which the server is overloaded by many computationally intensive requests. In this work, we consider that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-09 István Módos , Přemysl Šůcha , Roman Václavík , Jan Smejkal , Zdeněk Hanzálek

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

Emerging reconfigurable optical communication technologies allow to enhance datacenter topologies with demand-aware links optimized towards traffic patterns. This paper studies the algorithmic problem of jointly optimizing topology and…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Wenkai Dai , Michael Dinitz , Klaus-Tycho Foerster , Long Luo , Stefan Schmid

We consider the problem of supply and demand balancing that is stated as a minimization problem for the total expected revenue function describing the behavior of both consumers and suppliers. In the considered market model we assume that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Dmitry Pasechnyuk , Pavel Dvurechensky , Sergey Omelchenko , Alexander Gasnikov

We study the problem of minimizing an ordered norm of a load vector (indexed by a set of $d$ resources), where a finite number $n$ of customers $c$ contribute to the load of each resource by choosing a solution $x_c$ in a convex set $X_c…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Daniel Blankenburg , Antonia Ellerbrock , Thomas Kesselheim , Jens Vygen

Nowadays, more and more increasingly hard computations are performed in challenging fields like weather forecasting, oil and gas exploration, and cryptanalysis. Many of such computations can be implemented using a computer cluster with a…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Freek van den Berg , Björn F. Postema , Boudewijn R. Haverkort

We consider a multi-source relaying system where the sources independently and randomly generate status update packets which are sent to the destination with the aid of a bufferaided relay through unreliable links. We formulate a stochastic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Abolfazl Zakeri , Mohammad Moltafet , Markus Leinonen , Marian Codreanu

Load balancing and auto scaling are at the core of scalable, contemporary systems, addressing dynamic resource allocation and service rate adjustments in response to workload changes. This paper introduces a novel model and algorithms for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 S. R. Eshwar , Lucas Lopes Felipe , Alexandre Reiffers-Masson , Daniel Sadoc Menasché , Gugan Thoppe

We study an online learning problem on dynamic pricing and resource allocation, where we make joint pricing and inventory decisions to maximize the overall net profit. We consider the stochastic dependence of demands on the price, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jianyu Xu , Xuan Wang , Yu-Xiang Wang , Jiashuo Jiang

This paper studies online nonstochastic control problems with adversarial and static constraints. We propose online nonstochastic control algorithms that achieve both sublinear regret and sublinear adversarial constraint violation while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Xin Liu , Zixian Yang , Lei Ying

Bin packing is an algorithmic problem that arises in diverse applications such as remnant inventory systems, shipping logistics, and appointment scheduling. In its simplest variant, a sequence of $T$ items (e.g., orders for raw material,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Varun Gupta , Ana Radovanovic

In the load balancing problem, each node in a network is assigned a load, and the goal is to equally distribute the loads among the nodes, by preforming local load exchanges. While load balancing was extensively studied in static networks,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Seth Gilbert , Uri Meir , Ami Paz , Gregory Schwartzman

This paper explores resource allocation in serverless cloud computing platforms and proposes an optimization approach for autoscaling systems. Serverless computing relieves users from resource management tasks, enabling focus on application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Harold Ship , Evgeny Shindin , Chen Wang , Diana Arroyo , Asser Tantawi

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