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ICALP
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Online Scheduling of Equal-Length Jobs: Randomization and Restarts Help
We consider the following scheduling problem. The input is a set of jobs with equal processing times, where each job is specified by its release time and deadline. The goal is to ...
Marek Chrobak, Wojciech Jawor, Jiri Sgall, Tom&aac...
JACM
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
Online algorithms for market clearing
In this article, we study the problem of online market clearing where there is one commodity in the market being bought and sold by multiple buyers and sellers whose bids arrive an...
Avrim Blum, Tuomas Sandholm, Martin Zinkevich
COCOON
2007
Springer
14 years 15 days ago
An Improved Algorithm for Online Unit Clustering
Abstract. We revisit the online unit clustering problem in one dimension which we recently introduced at WAOA'06: given a sequence of n points on the line, the objective is to...
Hamid Zarrabi-Zadeh, Timothy M. Chan
STOC
2003
ACM
152views Algorithms» more  STOC 2003»
14 years 8 months ago
Reducing truth-telling online mechanisms to online optimization
We describe a general technique for converting an online algorithm B to a truthtelling mechanism. We require that the original online competitive algorithm has certain "nicen...
Baruch Awerbuch, Yossi Azar, Adam Meyerson
ESA
2007
Springer
125views Algorithms» more  ESA 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Online Primal-Dual Algorithms for Maximizing Ad-Auctions Revenue
We study the online ad-auctions problem introduced by Mehta et. al. [15]. We design a (1 − 1/e)competitive (optimal) algorithm for the problem, which is based on a clean primal-...
Niv Buchbinder, Kamal Jain, Joseph Naor