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In this paper, we present a framework used to construct and analyze algorithms for online optimization problems with deadlines or with delay over a metric space. Using this framework, we present algorithms for several different problems. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Yossi Azar , Noam Touitou

The study of approximate matching in the Massively Parallel Computations (MPC) model has recently seen a burst of breakthroughs. Despite this progress, however, we still have a far more limited understanding of maximal matching which is one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Soheil Behnezhad , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , David G. Harris

The Partitioning Min-Max Weighted Matching (PMMWM) problem is an NP-hard problem that combines the problem of partitioning a group of vertices of a bipartite graph into disjoint subsets with limited size and the classical Min-Max Weighted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Yuxuan Wang , Jinyao Xie , Jiongzhi Zheng , Kun He

Enumerating matchings is a classical problem in the field of enumeration algorithms. There are polynomial-delay enumeration algorithms for several settings, such as enumerating perfect matchings, maximal matchings, and (weighted) matchings…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yasuaki Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Kurita , Kunihiro Wasa

In the online sorting problem, a sequence of $n$ numbers in $[0, 1]$ (including $\{0,1\}$) have to be inserted in an array of size $m \ge n$ so as to minimize the sum of absolute differences between pairs of numbers occupying consecutive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yossi Azar , Debmalya Panigrahi , Or Vardi

We consider the problem of scheduling $n$ precedence-constrained jobs on $m$ uniformly-related machines in the presence of an arbitrary, fixed communication delay $\rho$. We consider a model that allows job duplication, i.e. processing of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Biswaroop Maiti , Rajmohan Rajaraman , David Stalfa , Zoya Svitkina , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

In the online metric matching problem, $n$ servers and $n$ requests lie in a metric space. Servers are available upfront, and requests arrive sequentially. An arriving request must be matched immediately and irrevocably to an available…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yingxi Li , Ellen Vitercik , Mingwei Yang

In the classical Online Metric Matching problem, we are given a metric space with $k$ servers. A collection of clients arrive in an online fashion, and upon arrival, a client should irrevocably be matched to an as-yet-unmatched server. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Varun Gupta , Ravishankar Krishnaswamy , Sai Sandeep

In the field of topological data analysis, persistence modules are used to express geometrical features of data sets. The matching distance $d_\mathcal{M}$ measures the difference between $2$-parameter persistence modules by taking the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-12-08 Håvard Bakke Bjerkevik , Michael Kerber

This paper considers the online machine minimization problem, a basic real time scheduling problem. The setting for this problem consists of n jobs that arrive over time, where each job has a deadline by which it must be completed. The goal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Sungjin Im , Benjamin Moseley , Kirk Pruhs , Clifford Stein

We study the on-line minimum weighted bipartite matching problem in arbitrary metric spaces. Here, $n$ not necessary disjoint points of a metric space $M$ are given, and are to be matched on-line with $n$ points of $M$ revealed one by one.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-06-06 Béla Csaba , András S. Pluhár

The setting for the online transportation problem is a metric space $M$, populated by $m$ parking garages of varying capacities. Over time cars arrive in $M$, and must be irrevocably assigned to a parking garage upon arrival in a way that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Stephen Arndt , Benjamin Moseley , Kirk Pruhs , Marc Uetz

We study an online hypergraph matching problem with delays, motivated by ridesharing applications. In this model, users enter a marketplace sequentially, and are willing to wait up to $d$ timesteps to be matched, after which they will leave…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Marco Pavone , Amin Saberi , Maximilian Schiffer , Matthew Tsao

In this paper, we introduce the online service with delay problem. In this problem, there are $n$ points in a metric space that issue service requests over time, and a server that serves these requests. The goal is to minimize the sum of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Yossi Azar , Arun Ganesh , Rong Ge , Debmalya Panigrahi

A maximal matching can be maintained in fully dynamic (supporting both addition and deletion of edges) $n$-vertex graphs using a trivial deterministic algorithm with a worst-case update time of O(n). No deterministic algorithm that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-19 Ofer Neiman , Shay Solomon

Given two point sets $S$ and $T$, the minimum-cost many-to-many matching with demands (MMD) problem is the problem of finding a minimum-cost many-to-many matching between $S$ and $T$ such that each point of $S$ (respectively $T$) is matched…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Fatemeh Rajabi-Alni , Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli

An algorithm is presented which produces the minimum cost bipartite matching between two sets of M points each, where the cost of matching two points is proportional to the minimum distance by which a particle could reach one point from the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-20 Kyle Treleaven , Josh Bialkowski , Emilio Frazzoli

In most online problems with delay, clairvoyance (i.e. knowing the future delay of a request upon its arrival) is required for polylogarithmic competitiveness. In this paper, we show that this is not the case for set cover with delay (SCD)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Yossi Azar , Ashish Chiplunkar , Shay Kutten , Noam Touitou

We study the problem of online facility location with delay. In this problem, a sequence of $n$ clients appear in the metric space, and they need to be eventually connected to some open facility. The clients do not have to be connected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Marcin Bienkowski , Martin Böhm , Jarosław Byrka , Jan Marcinkowski

We consider the classic problem of scheduling jobs with precedence constraints on identical machines to minimize makespan, in the presence of communication delays. In this setting, denoted by $\mathsf{P} \mid \mathsf{prec}, c \mid…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Sami Davies , Janardhan Kulkarni , Thomas Rothvoss , Jakub Tarnawski , Yihao Zhang