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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

In the on-line file-caching problem problem, the input is a sequence of requests for files, given on-line (one at a time). Each file has a non-negative size and a non-negative retrieval cost. The problem is to decide which files to keep in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Neal E. Young

We introduce and study the weighted version of an online matching problem in the Euclidean plane with non-crossing constraints: points with non-negative weights arrive online, and an algorithm can match an arriving point to one of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Joan Boyar , Shahin Kamali , Kim S. Larsen , Ali Fata Lavasani , Yaqiao Li , Denis Pankratov

We study a fundamental online scheduling problem where jobs with processing times, weights, and deadlines arrive online over time at their release dates. The task is to preemptively schedule these jobs on a single or multiple (possibly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Franziska Eberle

We study a weighted online bipartite matching problem: $G(V_1, V_2, E)$ is a weighted bipartite graph where $V_1$ is known beforehand and the vertices of $V_2$ arrive online. The goal is to match vertices of $V_2$ as they arrive to vertices…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Moses Charikar , Monika Henzinger , Huy L. Nguyen

Caching (also known as paging) is a classical problem concerning page replacement policies in two-level memory systems. General caching is the variant with pages of different sizes and fault costs. We give the first NP-hardness result for…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-06-29 Lukáš Folwarczný , Jiří Sgall

Motivated by bursty bandwidth allocation and by the allocation of virtual machines to servers in the cloud, we consider the online problem of packing items with random sizes into unit-capacity bins. Items arrive sequentially, but upon…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-08 Sebastian Perez-Salazar , Mohit Singh , Alejandro Toriello

Caching is a crucial component of many computer systems, so naturally it is a well-studied topic in algorithm design. Much of traditional caching research studies cache management for a single-user or single-processor environment. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Sharat Ibrahimpur , Manish Purohit , Zoya Svitkina , Erik Vee , Joshua Wang

The weighted $k$-server is a variant of the $k$-server problem, where the cost of moving a server is the server's weight times the distance through which it moves. The problem is famous for its intriguing properties and for evading standard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Adithya Bijoy , Ankit Mondal , Ashish Chiplunkar

We study an edge-weighted online stochastic \emph{Generalized Assignment Problem} with \emph{unknown} Poisson arrivals. In this model, we consider a bipartite graph that contains offline bins and online items, where each offline bin is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Zihao Li , Hao Wang , Zhenzhen Yan

In the online general knapsack problem, an algorithm is presented with an item $x=(s,v)$ of size $s$ and value $v$ and must irrevocably choose to pack such an item into the knapsack or reject it before the next item appears. The goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Elisabet Burjons , Matthias Gehnen

A natural variant of the classical online $k$-server problem is the Weighted $k$-server problem, where the cost of moving a server is its weight times the distance through which it moves. Despite its apparent simplicity, the weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Nikhil Ayyadevara , Ashish Chiplunkar , Amatya Sharma

The online algorithm design was proposed to handle the caching problem when the future information is unknown. And currently, it draws more and more attentions from the researchers from the areas of microgrid, where the production of…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Ying Zhang

Cost-Sensitive Online Classification has drawn extensive attention in recent years, where the main approach is to directly online optimize two well-known cost-sensitive metrics: (i) weighted sum of sensitivity and specificity; (ii) weighted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Peilin Zhao , Yifan Zhang , Min Wu , Steven C. H. Hoi , Mingkui Tan , Junzhou Huang

Online learning makes sequence of decisions with partial data arrival where next movement of data is unknown. In this paper, we have presented a new technique as multiple times weight updating that update the weight iteratively forsame…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Charanjeet , Anuj Sharma

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

Motivated by the Quality-of-Service (QoS) buffer management problem, we consider online scheduling of packets with hard deadlines in a finite capacity queue. At any time, a queue can store at most $b \in \mathbb Z^+$ packets. Packets arrive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-02-09 Fei Li

In the model of online caching with machine learned advice, introduced by Lykouris and Vassilvitskii, the goal is to solve the caching problem with an online algorithm that has access to next-arrival predictions: when each input element…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Dhruv Rohatgi

With the developments in machine learning, there has been a surge in interest and results focused on algorithms utilizing predictions, not least in online algorithms where most new results incorporate the prediction aspect for concrete…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Magnus Berg , Joan Boyar , Lene M. Favrholdt , Kim S. Larsen

This paper initiates the study of online algorithms for the maximum weight $b$-matching problem, a generalization of maximum weight matching where each node has at most $b \geq 1$ adjacent matching edges. The problem is motivated by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Marcin Bienkowski , David Fuchssteiner , Jan Marcinkowski , Stefan Schmid