I study school assignment problems, focusing on two popular mechanisms: the Boston Mechanism (BM) and Deferred Acceptance (DA). The former has been criticized regarding both e¢ c...
In this paper, we consider the multi-task sparse learning problem under the assumption that the dimensionality diverges with the sample size. The traditional l1/l2 multi-task lass...
Xi Chen, Jingrui He, Rick Lawrence, Jaime G. Carbo...
A group of identical mobile agents moving asynchronously among the nodes of an anonymous network have to gather together in a single node of the graph. This problem known as the (a...
The complexity of parallel I/O systems lies in the deep I/O stack with many software layers and concurrent I/O request handling at multiple layers. This paper explores multi-layer...
We study a class of scheduling problems with batch setups for the online-list and online-time paradigms. Jobs are to be scheduled in batches for processing. All jobs in a batch st...