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STACS
1999
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
An Optimal Competitive Strategy for Walking in Streets
We present an optimal strategy for searching for a goal in a street which achieves the competitive factor of √ 2, thus matching the best lower bound known before. This finally ...
Christian Icking, Rolf Klein, Elmar Langetepe
INFOCOM
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Online time-constrained scheduling in linear networks
— We consider the problem of scheduling a sequence of packets over a linear network, where every packet has a source and a target, as well as a release time and a deadline by whi...
Joseph Naor, Adi Rosén, Gabriel Scalosub
SODA
2010
ACM
232views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
On the Optimality of Spiral Search
Searching for a point in the plane is a well-known search game problem introduced in the early eigthies. The best known search strategy is given by a spiral and achieves a competi...
Elmar Langetepe
ICRA
2006
IEEE
99views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
MRSAM: a Quadratically Competitive Multi-robot Online Navigation Algorithm
— We explore an online problem where a group of robots has to find a target whose position is unknown in an unknown planar environment whose geometry is acquired by the robots d...
Shahar Sarid, Amir Shapiro, Yoav Gabriely
JACM
2006
134views more  JACM 2006»
13 years 7 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