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We study the design of fixed-parameter algorithms for problems already known to be solvable in polynomial time. The main motivation is to get more efficient algorithms for problems with unattractive polynomial running times. Here, we focus…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Archontia C. Giannopoulou , George B. Mertzios , Rolf Niedermeier

Register allocation is one of the most important problems for modern compilers. With a practically unlimited number of user variables and a small number of CPU registers, assigning variables to registers without conflicts is a complex task.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Chase Cummins , Richard Veras

We study the parameterized complexity of a broad class of problems called "local graph partitioning problems" that includes the classical fixed cardinality problems as max k-vertex cover, k-densest subgraph, etc. By developing a technique…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Edouard Bonnet , Bruno Escoffier , Vangelis Th. Paschos , Emeric Tourniaire

Given a set of $m$ agents and a set of $n$ items, where agent $A$ has utility $u_{A,i}$ for item $i$, our goal is to allocate items to agents to maximize fairness. Specifically, the utility of an agent is the sum of its utilities for items…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-01-05 Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Julia Chuzhoy , Sanjeev Khanna

We consider a decision network on an undirected graph in which each node corresponds to a decision variable, and each node and edge of the graph is associated with a reward function whose value depends only on the variables of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-12-03 David Gamarnik , David Goldberg , Theophane Weber

We study the well-established problem of finding an optimal routing of unsplittable flows in a graph. While by now there is an extensive body of work targeting the problem on graph classes such as paths and trees, we aim at using the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Robert Ganian , Mathis Rocton , Daniel Unterberger

We address the problem of allocating limited resources in a network under persistent yet statistically unknown adversarial attacks. Each node in the network may be degraded, but not fully disabled, depending on its available defensive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Mansoor Davoodi , Setareh Maghsudi

In this work, we revisit the problem of fairly allocating a number of indivisible items that are located on a line to multiple agents. A feasible allocation requires that the allocated items to each agent are connected on the line. The…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ankang Sun , Bo Li

The maximization for the independence systems defined on graphs is a generalization of combinatorial optimization problems such as the maximum $b$-matching, the unweighted MAX-SAT, the matchoid, and the maximum timed matching problems. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Yuki Amano

We present an approach for maximizing a global utility function by learning how to allocate resources in an unsupervised way. We expect interactions between allocation targets to be important and therefore propose to learn the reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Miles Cranmer , Peter Melchior , Brian Nord

Many real-life planning problems require making a priori decisions before all parameters of the problem have been revealed. An important special case of such problem arises in scheduling problems, where a set of tasks needs to be assigned…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-07-11 David Adjiashvili , Viktor Bindewald , Dennis Michaels

We prove the following results for task allocation of indivisible resources: - The problem of finding a leximin-maximal resource allocation is in P if the agents have max-utility functions and atomic demands. - Deciding whether a resource…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2008-10-17 Bart de Keijzer

Teaming is the process of establishing connections among agents within a system to enable collaboration toward achieving a collective goal. This paper examines teaming in the context of a network of agents learning to coordinate with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Zhewei Wang , Olugbenga Moses Anubi , Marcos M. Vasconcelos

We study an online resource allocation problem under uncertainty about demand and about the reward of each type of demand (agents) for the resource. Even though dealing with demand uncertainty in resource allocation problems has been the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Negin Gorlezaei , Patrick Jaillet , Zijie Zhou

We study the computational complexity of fairly allocating a set of indivisible items under externalities. In this recently-proposed setting, in addition to the utility the agent gets from their bundle, they also receive utility from items…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Argyrios Deligkas , Eduard Eiben , Viktoriia Korchemna , Šimon Schierreich

In real-time systems, in addition to the functional correctness recurrent tasks must fulfill timing constraints to ensure the correct behavior of the system. Partitioned scheduling is widely used in real-time systems, i.e., the tasks are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Jian-Jia Chen , Nikhil Bansal , Samarjit Chakraborty , Georg von der Brüggen

Task allocation using a team or coalition of robots is one of the most important problems in robotics, computer science, operational research, and artificial intelligence. In recent work, research has focused on handling complex objectives…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Haris Aziz , Arindam Pal , Ali Pourmiri , Fahimeh Ramezani , Brendan Sims

This paper analyzes the problem of assigning weights to edges incrementally in a dynamic complete bipartite graph consisting of producer and consumer nodes. The objective is to minimize the overall cost while satisfying certain constraints.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-05-03 Ankur Sahai

Motivated by real-world applications such as the allocation of public housing, we examine the problem of assigning a group of agents to vertices (e.g., spatial locations) of a network so that the diversity level is maximized. Specifically,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Zirou Qiu , Andrew Yuan , Chen Chen , Madhav V. Marathe , S. S. Ravi , Daniel J. Rosenkrantz , Richard E. Stearns , Anil Vullikanti

As Large Language Models (LLMs) become more powerful and autonomous, they increasingly face conflicts and dilemmas in many scenarios. We first summarize and taxonomize these diverse conflicts. Then, we model the LLM's preferences to make…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhenheng Tang , Xiang Liu , Qian Wang , Eunsol Choi , Bo Li , Xiaowen Chu