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We study web and mobile applications that are used to schedule advance service, from medical appointments to restaurant reservations. We model them as online weighted bipartite matching problems with non-stationary arrivals. We propose new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Xinshang Wang , Van-Anh Truong , David Bank

There is a growing cross-disciplinary effort in the broad domain of optimization and learning with streams of data, applied to settings where traditional batch optimization techniques cannot produce solutions at time scales that match the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Emiliano Dall'Anese , Andrea Simonetto , Stephen Becker , Liam Madden

We study the online busy time scheduling model on heterogeneous machines. In our setting, jobs with uniform length arrive online with a deadline that becomes known to the algorithm at the job's arrival time. An algorithm has access to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Gruia Calinescu , Sami Davies , Samir Khuller , Shirley Zhang

Reconfigurable optical topologies are emerging as a promising technology to improve the efficiency of datacenter networks. This paper considers the problem of scheduling opportunistic links in such reconfigurable datacenters. We study the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Janardhan Kulkarni , Stefan Schmid , Paweł Schmidt

We consider a fundamental online scheduling problem in which jobs with processing times and deadlines arrive online over time at their release dates. The task is to determine a feasible preemptive schedule on a single or multiple possibly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Franziska Eberle , Nicole Megow , Kevin Schewior

The problem of online scheduling of multi-server jobs is considered, where there are a total of $K$ servers, and each job requires concurrent service from multiple servers for it to be processed. Each job on its arrival reveals its…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Rahul Vaze

In the Time-Windows TSP (TW-TSP) we are given requests at different locations on a network; each request is endowed with a reward and an interval of time; the goal is to find a tour that visits as much reward as possible during the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Shuchi Chawla , Dimitris Christou

We consider the \textsf{Unit Interval Selection} problem in the one-pass random order streaming model. Here, an algorithm is presented a sequence of $n$ unit-length intervals on the line that arrive in uniform random order, and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Cezar-Mihail Alexandru , Adithya Diddapur , Magnús M. Halldórsson , Christian Konrad , Kheeran K. Naidu

We consider the online problem of scheduling jobs on identical machines, where jobs have precedence constraints. We are interested in the demanding setting where the jobs sizes are not known up-front, but are revealed only upon completion…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Naveen Garg , Anupam Gupta , Amit Kumar , Sahil Singla

We consider an online scheduling problem, motivated by the issues present at the joints of networks using ATM and TCP/IP. Namely, IP packets have to broken down to small ATM cells and sent out before their deadlines, but cells corresponding…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-04-14 Christoph Durr , Lukasz Jez , Nguyen Kim Thang

We consider online preemptive scheduling of jobs arriving one by one, to be assigned to two identical machines, with the goal of makespan minimization. We study the effect of selecting the best solution out of two independent solutions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Leah Epstein

We consider a natural extension of online makespan scheduling on identical parallel machines by introducing scenarios. A scenario is a subset of jobs, and the task of our problem is to find a global assignment of the jobs to machines so…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Ekin Ergen

We study the online unweighted bipartite matching problem in the random arrival order model, with $n$ offline and $n$ online vertices, in the learning-augmented setting: The algorithm is provided with untrusted predictions of the types…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Kunanon Burathep , Thomas Erlebach , William K. Moses

We study the admission control problem in general networks. Communication requests arrive over time, and the online algorithm accepts or rejects each request while maintaining the capacity limitations of the network. The admission control…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Noga Alon , Yossi Azar , Shai Gutner

In online scheduling, jobs are available one by one and each job must be scheduled irrevocably before the availability of the next job. Semi-online scheduling is a relaxed variant of online scheduling, where an additional memory in terms of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Debasis Dwibedy , Rakesh Mohanty

We analyze the Disjoint Path Allocation problem (DPA) in the priority framework. Motivated by the problem of traffic regulation in communication networks, DPA consists of allocating edge-disjoint paths in a graph. While online algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Hans-Joachim Böckenhauer , Fabian Frei , Silvan Horvath

Contract scheduling is a widely studied framework for designing real-time systems with interruptible capabilities. Previous work has showed that a prediction on the interruption time can help improve the performance of contract-based…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Spyros Angelopoulos , Marcin Bienkowski , Christoph Dürr , Bertrand Simon

This paper is devoted to the online dominating set problem and its variants. We believe the paper represents the first systematic study of the effect of two limitations of online algorithms: making irrevocable decisions while not knowing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Joan Boyar , Stephan J. Eidenbenz , Lene M. Favrholdt , Michal Kotrbčík , Kim S. Larsen

For a given set of intervals on the real line, we consider the problem of ordering the intervals with the goal of minimizing an objective function that depends on the exposed interval pieces (that is, the pieces that are not covered by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-05 Christoph Dürr , Maurice Queyranne , Frits C. R. Spieksma , Fabrice Talla Nobibon , Gerhard J. Woeginger

We study the online maximum coverage problem on a line, in which, given an online sequence of sub-intervals (which may intersect among each other) of a target large interval and an integer $k$, we aim to select at most $k$ of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Songhua Li , Minming Li , Lingjie Duan , Victor C. S. Lee