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We study web and mobile applications that are used to schedule advance service, from medical appointments to restaurant reservations. We model them as online weighted bipartite matching problems with non-stationary arrivals. We propose new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Xinshang Wang , Van-Anh Truong , David Bank

This paper presents a new research direction for the Min-cost Perfect Matching with Delays (MPMD) - a problem introduced by Emek et al. (STOC'16). In the original version of this problem, we are given an $n$-point metric space, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Mathieu Mari , Michał Pawłowski , Runtian Ren , Piotr Sankowski

We consider the problem of learning and using predictions for warm start algorithms with predictions. In this setting, an algorithm is given an instance of a problem, and a prediction of the solution. The runtime of the algorithm is bounded…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Vaidehi Srinivas , Avrim Blum

We consider a variant of the online buffer management problem in network switches, called the $k$-frame throughput maximization problem ($k$-FTM). This problem models the situation where a large frame is fragmented into $k$ packets and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-23 Jun Kawahara , Koji M. Kobayashi , Shuichi Miyazaki

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

We consider the classical $k$-means clustering problem in the setting bi-criteria approximation, in which an algoithm is allowed to output $\beta k > k$ clusters, and must produce a clustering with cost at most $\alpha$ times the to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-04 Konstantin Makarychev , Yury Makarychev , Maxim Sviridenko , Justin Ward

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 introduce a natural online allocation problem that connects several of the most fundamental problems in online optimization. Let $M$ be an $n$-point metric space. Consider a resource that can be allocated in arbitrary fractions to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Nikhil Bansal , Christian Coester

We consider the $k$-Median problem on planar graphs: given an edge-weighted planar graph $G$, a set of clients $C \subseteq V(G)$, a set of facilities $F \subseteq V(G)$, and an integer parameter $k$, the task is to find a set of at most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk

We develop two simple and efficient approximation algorithms for the continuous $k$-medians problems, where we seek to find the optimal location of $k$ facilities among a continuum of client points in a convex polygon $C$ with $n$ vertices…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Reyhaneh Mohammadi , Raghuveer Devulapalli , Mehdi Behroozi

The classical center based clustering problems such as $k$-means/median/center assume that the optimal clusters satisfy the locality property that the points in the same cluster are close to each other. A number of clustering problems arise…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Anup Bhattacharya , Ragesh Jaiswal , Amit Kumar

We study the problem of metrical service systems with multiple servers (MSSMS), which generalizes two well-known problems -- the $k$-server problem, and metrical service systems. The MSSMS problem is to service requests, each of which is an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Ashish Chiplunkar , Sundar Vishwanathan

In this paper, we consider the weighted online set k-multicover problem. In this problem, we have a universe V of elements, a family S of subsets of V with a positive real cost for every set in S and a "coverage factor" (positive integer)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Piotr Berman , Bhaskar DasGupta

We consider the problem of maximizing a fractionally subadditive function under a knapsack constraint that grows over time. An incremental solution to this problem is given by an order in which to include the elements of the ground set, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Yann Disser , Max Klimm , Annette Lutz , David Weckbecker

We study the online minimum cost bipartite perfect matching with delays problem. In this problem, $m$ servers and $m$ requests arrive over time, and an online algorithm can delay the matching between servers and requests by paying the delay…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Tung-Wei Kuo

In this paper, we study two natural generalizations of ordered $k$-median, named robust ordered $k$-median and fault-tolerant ordered $k$-median. In ordered $k$-median, given a finite metric space $(X,d)$, we seek to open $k$ facilities…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Shichuan Deng , Qianfan Zhang

Recent advances in machine learning have spurred significant interest in learning-augmented algorithms, particularly for online optimization. A growing body of work has studied online bidding in this framework, aiming to characterize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Changyeol Lee , Dahoon Lee , Jongseo Lee , Yongho Shin , Changki Yun

In the online metric bipartite matching problem, we are given a set $S$ of server locations in a metric space. Requests arrive one at a time, and on its arrival, we need to immediately and irrevocably match it to a server at a cost which is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Sharath Raghvendra

The $k$-Median problem is one of the well-known optimization problems that formalize the task of data clustering. Here, we are given sets of facilities $F$ and clients $C$, and the goal is to open $k$ facilities from the set $F$, which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Jarosław Byrka , Szymon Dudycz , Pasin Manurangsi , Jan Marcinkowski , Michał Włodarczyk

We consider the $k$-clustering problem with $\ell_p$-norm cost, which includes $k$-median, $k$-means and $k$-center, under an individual notion of fairness proposed by Jung et al. [2020]: given a set of points $P$ of size $n$, a set of $k$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Ali Vakilian , Mustafa Yalçıner