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COCOON
2006
Springer
14 years 9 days ago
Improved On-Line Broadcast Scheduling with Deadlines
We study an on-line broadcast scheduling problem in which requests have deadlines, and the objective is to maximize the weighted throughput, i.e., the weighted total length of the ...
Feifeng Zheng, Stanley P. Y. Fung, Wun-Tat Chan, F...
ICALP
2011
Springer
13 years 1 days ago
On the Advice Complexity of the k-Server Problem
Competitive analysis is the established tool for measuring the output quality of algorithms that work in an online environment. Recently, the model of advice complexity has been in...
Hans-Joachim Böckenhauer, Dennis Komm, Rastis...
ATVA
2011
Springer
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12 years 8 months ago
Formal Analysis of Online Algorithms
In [AKL10], we showed how viewing online algorithms as reactive systems enables the application of ideas from formal verification to the competitive analysis of online algorithms....
Benjamin Aminof, Orna Kupferman, Robby Lampert
FOCS
2004
IEEE
14 years 9 days ago
Dynamic Optimality -- Almost
We present an O(lg lg n)-competitive online binary search tree, improving upon the best previous (trivial) competitive ratio of O(lg n). This is the first major progress on Sleator...
Erik D. Demaine, Dion Harmon, John Iacono, Mihai P...
ICTCS
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Laxity Helps in Broadcast Scheduling
We study the effect of laxity, or slack time, on the online scheduling of broadcasts with deadlines. The laxity of a request is defined to be the ratio between its span (differe...
Stanley P. Y. Fung, Francis Y. L. Chin, Chung Keun...