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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 consider the online vector packing problem in which we have a $d$ dimensional knapsack and items $u$ with weight vectors $\mathbf{w}_u \in \mathbb{R}_+^d$ arrive online in an arbitrary order. Upon the arrival of an item, the algorithm…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-06-22 T-H. Hubert Chan , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Zhihao Gavin Tang , Xiaowei Wu

We consider the classical online scheduling problem P||C_{max} in which jobs are released over list and provide a nearly optimal online algorithm. More precisely, an online algorithm whose competitive ratio is at most (1+\epsilon) times…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-19 Lin Chen , Deshi Ye , Guochuan Zhang

This paper optimizes the configuration of large-scale data centers toward cost-effective, reliable and sustainable cloud supply chains. The problem involves placing incoming racks of servers within a data center to maximize demand coverage…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Saumil Baxi , Kayla Cummings , Alexandre Jacquillat , Sean Lo , Rob McDonald , Konstantina Mellou , Ishai Menache , Marco Molinaro

Classical problems of sorting and searching assume an underlying linear ordering of the objects being compared. In this paper, we study a more general setting, in which some pairs of objects are incomparable. This generalization is relevant…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-07-12 Constantinos Daskalakis , Richard M. Karp , Elchanan Mossel , Samantha Riesenfeld , Elad Verbin

Most practical scheduling applications involve some uncertainty about the arriving times and lengths of the jobs. Stochastic online scheduling is a well-established model capturing this. Here the arrivals occur online, while the processing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Sven Jäger

The missing item problem, as introduced by Stoeckl in his work at SODA 23, focuses on continually identifying a missing element $e$ in a stream of elements ${e_1, ..., e_{\ell}}$ from the set $\{1,2,...,n\}$, such that $e \neq e_i$ for any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Roey Magen

Makespan minimization on identical parallel machines is a classical scheduling problem. We consider the online scenario where a sequence of $n$ jobs has to be scheduled non-preemptively on $m$ machines so as to minimize the maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-03-09 Susanne Albers , Matthias Hellwig

In the Online Machine Covering problem jobs, defined by their sizes, arrive one by one and have to be assigned to $m$ parallel and identical machines, with the goal of maximizing the load of the least-loaded machine. In this work, we study…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Susanne Albers , Waldo Gálvez , Maximilian Janke

We consider the online Minimum-Cost Perfect Matching with Delays (MPMD) problem introduced by Emek et al. (STOC 2016), in which a general metric space is given, and requests are submitted in different times in this space by an adversary.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Yossi Azar , Amit Jacob-Fanani

In the online bipartite matching problem with replacements, all the vertices on one side of the bipartition are given, and the vertices on the other side arrive one by one with all their incident edges. The goal is to maintain a maximum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Aaron Bernstein , Jacob Holm , Eva Rotenberg

In this paper we consider the Online Bin Packing Problem in three variants: Circles in Squares, Circles in Isosceles Right Triangles, and Spheres in Cubes. The two first ones receive an online sequence of circles (items) of different radii…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Carla Negri Lintzmayer , Flávio Keidi Miyazawa , Eduardo Candido Xavier

Many real-world resource allocation systems, such as humanitarian logistics and vaccine distribution, must preposition limited supply across multiple locations before demand is realized while stockouts incur irreversible service losses. To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Tzeh Yuan Neoh , Davin Choo , Mengchu Yue , Milind Tambe

We consider the online version of the piercing set problem, where geometric objects arrive one by one, and the online algorithm must maintain a valid piercing set for the already arrived objects by making irrevocable decisions. It is easy…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Minati De , Saksham Jain , Sarat Varma Kallepalli , Satyam Singh

Two central problems in Stochastic Optimization are Min Sum Set Cover and Pandora's Box. In Pandora's Box, we are presented with $n$ boxes, each containing an unknown value and the goal is to open the boxes in some order to minimize the sum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Evangelia Gergatsouli , Christos Tzamos

We extend the standard online worst-case model to accommodate past experience which is available to the online player in many practical scenarios. We do this by revealing a random sample of the adversarial input to the online player ahead…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Haim Kaplan , David Naori , Danny Raz

We consider a parallel system of $m$ identical machines prone to unpredictable crashes and restarts, trying to cope with the continuous arrival of tasks to be executed. Tasks have different computational requirements (i.e., processing time…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Elli Zavou , Antonio Fernández Anta

We introduce and study spatiotemporal online allocation with deadline constraints ($\mathsf{SOAD}$), a new online problem motivated by emerging challenges in sustainability and energy. In $\mathsf{SOAD}$, an online player completes a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Adam Lechowicz , Nicolas Christianson , Bo Sun , Noman Bashir , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Adam Wierman , Prashant Shenoy

We propose an end-to-end learning framework based on hierarchical reinforcement learning, called H-TSP, for addressing the large-scale Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP). The proposed H-TSP constructs a solution of a TSP instance starting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Xuanhao Pan , Yan Jin , Yuandong Ding , Mingxiao Feng , Li Zhao , Lei Song , Jiang Bian

The online bisection problem requires maintaining a dynamic partition of $n$ nodes into two equal-sized clusters. Requests arrive sequentially as node pairs. If the nodes lie in different clusters, the algorithm pays unit cost. After each…

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