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Bin packing is a classic optimization problem with a wide range of applications, from load balancing to supply chain management. In this work, we study the online variant of the problem, in which a sequence of items of various sizes must be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Spyros Angelopoulos , Shahin Kamali , Kimia Shadkami

Given $n$ intervals on a line $\ell$, we consider the problem of moving these intervals on $\ell$ such that no two intervals overlap and the maximum moving distance of the intervals is minimized. The difficulty for solving the problem lies…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Shimin Li , Haitao Wang

We consider the problem of online Min-cost Perfect Matching with Delays (MPMD) introduced by Emek et al. (STOC 2016). In this problem, an even number of requests appear in a metric space at different times and the goal of an online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Marcin Bienkowski , Artur Kraska , Paweł Schmidt

We propose an anytime online algorithm for the problem of learning a sequence of adversarial convex cost functions while approximately satisfying another sequence of adversarial online convex constraints. A sequential algorithm is called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Dhruv Sarkar , Abhishek Sinha

We consider a real-time monitoring system where a source node (with energy limitations) aims to keep the information status at a destination node as fresh as possible by scheduling status update transmissions over a set of channels. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Mohamed A. Abd-Elmagid , Ming Shi , Eylem Ekici , Ness B. Shroff

The recently introduced online Minimum Peak Appointment Scheduling (MPAS) problem is a variant of the online bin-packing problem that allows for deferred decision making. Specifically, it allows for the problem to be split into an online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Devin Smedira , David B. Shmoys

We consider the problem of sorting $n$ items, given the outcomes of $m$ pre-existing comparisons. We present a simple and natural deterministic algorithm that runs in $O(m + \log T)$ time and does $O(\log T)$ comparisons, where $T$ is the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Bernhard Haeupler , Richard Hladík , John Iacono , Vaclav Rozhon , Robert Tarjan , Jakub Tětek

This paper studies a scheduling problem in a parallel machine setting, where each machine must adhere to a predetermined fixed order for processing the jobs. Given $n$ jobs, each with processing times and deadlines, we aim to minimize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Andre Berger , Arman Rouhani , Marc Schröder

We consider a single-hop wireless network with sources transmitting time-sensitive information to the destination over multiple unreliable channels. Packets from each source are generated according to a stochastic process with known…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-23 Eray Unsal Atay , Igor Kadota , Eytan Modiano

In the restricted assignment problem, the input consists of a set of machines and a set of jobs each with a processing time and a subset of eligible machines. The goal is to find an assignment of the jobs to the machines minimizing the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Marten Maack , Klaus Jansen

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

We design efficient online scheduling policies to maximize the freshness of information delivered to the users in a cellular network under both adversarial and stochastic channel and mobility assumptions. The information freshness achieved…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Abhishek Sinha , Rajarshi Bhattacharjee

The NP-hard problem of task scheduling with communication delays (P|prec,c_{ij}|C_{\mathrm{max}}) is often tackled using approximate methods, but guarantees on the quality of these heuristic solutions are hard to come by. Optimal schedules…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Michael Orr , Oliver Sinnen

This paper is proposing a general periodicity result concerning any deterministic and memoryless scheduling algorithm (including non-work-conserving algorithms), for any context, on identical multiprocessor platforms. By context we mean the…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2013-05-17 Emmanuel Grolleau , Joël Goossens , Liliana Cucu-Grosjean

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

We study the online multi-class selection problem with group fairness guarantees, where limited resources must be allocated to sequentially arriving agents. Our work addresses two key limitations in the existing literature. First, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Faraz Zargari , Hossein Nekouyan , Lyndon Hallett , Bo Sun , Xiaoqi Tan

We study a \emph{financial} version of the classic online problem of scheduling weighted packets with deadlines. The main novelty is that, while previous works assume packets have \emph{fixed} weights throughout their lifetime, this work…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yotam Gafni , Aviv Yaish

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 revisit the online dynamic acknowledgment problem. In the problem, a sequence of requests arrive over time to be acknowledged, and all outstanding requests can be satisfied simultaneously by one acknowledgement. The goal of the problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Sungjin Im , Benjamin Moseley , Chenyang Xu , Ruilong Zhang

This article proposes novel off-line test generation techniques from non-deterministic timed automata with inputs and outputs (TAIOs) in the formal framework of the tioco conformance theory. In this context, a first problem is the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-26 Nathalie Bertrand , Thierry Jéron , Amélie Stainer , Moez Krichen