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The $k$-Server Problem covers plenty of resource allocation scenarios, and several variations have been studied extensively for decades. We present a model generalizing the $k$-Server Problem by preferences of the requests, where the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Jannik Castenow , Björn Feldkord , Till Knollmann , Manuel Malatyali , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide

The online assignment problem plays an important role in operational research and computer science which is why immense attention has been given to improving its solution quality. Due to the incomplete information about the input, it is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Clarence Gabriel R. Kasilag , Pollux M. Rey , Jhoirene B. Clemente

We revisit the online Unit Clustering and Unit Covering problems in higher dimensions: Given a set of $n$ points in a metric space, that arrive one by one, Unit Clustering asks to partition the points into the minimum number of clusters…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Adrian Dumitrescu , Csaba D. Tóth

Fairness considerations have motivated new clustering problems and algorithms in recent years. In this paper we consider the Priority Matroid Median problem which generalizes the Priority $k$-Median problem that has recently been studied.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Tanvi Bajpai , Chandra Chekuri

We study the online problem of assigning a moving point to a base-station region that contains it. For instance, the moving object could represent a cellular phone and the base station could represent the coverage zones of cell towers. Our…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-05-03 David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich , Maarten Löffler

The Fault-Tolerant Facility Placement problem (FTFP) is a generalization of the classic Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem (UFL). In FTFP we are given a set of facility sites and a set of clients. Opening a facility at site $i$ costs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Li Yan , Marek Chrobak

Thick two-sided matching platforms, such as the room-rental market, face the challenge of showing relevant objects to users to reduce search costs. Many platforms use ranking algorithms to determine the order in which alternatives are shown…

General Economics · Economics 2023-08-29 Caterina Calsamiglia , Laura Doval , Alejandro Robinson-Cortés , Matthew Shum

In an online fair allocation problem, a sequence of indivisible items arrives online and needs to be allocated to offline agents immediately and irrevocably. In our paper, we study the online allocation of either goods or chores. We employ…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yuanyuan Wang , Tianze Wei

Motivated by the dynamic assortment offerings and item pricings occurring in e-commerce, we study a general problem of allocating finite inventories to heterogeneous customers arriving sequentially. We analyze this problem under the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Will Ma , David Simchi-Levi

We initiate the study of the heterogeneous facility location problem with limited resources. We mainly focus on the fundamental case where a set of agents are positioned in the line segment [0,1] and have approval preferences over two…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Argyrios Deligkas , Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Alexandros A. Voudouris

We reexamine fundamental problems from computational geometry in the word RAM model, where input coordinates are integers that fit in a machine word. We develop a new algorithm for offline point location, a two-dimensional analog of sorting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-10-12 Timothy M. Chan , Mihai Patrascu

In spite of the extensive study of stack and queue layouts, many fundamental questions remain open concerning the complexity-theoretic frontiers for computing stack and queue layouts. A stack (resp. queue) layout places vertices along a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Thomas Depian , Simon D. Fink , Robert Ganian , Vaishali Surianarayanan

By acquiring cloud-like capacities at the edge of a network, edge computing is expected to significantly improve user experience. In this paper, we formulate a hybrid edge-cloud computing system where an edge device with limited local…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Thinh Quang Dinh , Ben Liang , Tony Q. S. Quek , Hyundong Shin

We initiate the study of centralized algorithms for welfare-maximizing allocation of goods to buyers subject to average-value constraints. We show that this problem is NP-hard to approximate beyond a factor of $\frac{e}{e-1}$, and provide a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Kshipra Bhawalkar , Zhe Feng , Anupam Gupta , Aranyak Mehta , David Wajc , Di Wang

In this paper we study the facility location problem in the online with recourse and dynamic algorithm models. In the online with recourse model, clients arrive one by one and our algorithm needs to maintain good solutions at all time steps…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Xiangyu Guo , Janardhan Kulkarni , Shi Li , Jiayi Xian

We consider the problem of forwarding packets arriving online with their destinations in a line network. In each time step, each router can forward one packet along the edge to its right. Each packet that is forwarded arrives at the next…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Joan Boyar , Lene M. Favrholdt , Kim S. Larsen , Kevin Schewior , Rob van Stee

We consider a facility location problem, where the objective is to ``disperse'' a number of facilities, i.e., select a given number k of locations from a discrete set of n candidates, such that the average distance between selected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sandor P. Fekete , Henk Meijer

Due to some significantly contradicting research results, we reconsider the problem of the online exploration of a simple grid cell environment. In this model an agent attains local information about the direct four-neigbourship of a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Maximilian Brock , Martin Brückmann , Elmar Langetepe , Raphael Wude

In the d-dimensional online bin packing problem, d-dimensional cubes of positive sizes no larger than 1 are presented one by one to be assigned to positions in d-dimensional unit cube bins. In this work, we provide improved upper bounds on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Leah Epstein , Loay Mualem

Online allocation problems with resource constraints have a rich history in operations research. In this paper, we introduce the \emph{regularized online allocation problem}, a variant that includes a non-linear regularizer acting on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-08 Santiago Balseiro , Haihao Lu , Vahab Mirrokni