CORR
2004
Springer
14 years 17 days ago
2004
Springer
Unfair metrical task systems are a generalization of online metrical task systems. In this paper we introduce new techniques to combine algorithms for unfair metrical task systems...
JDA
2006
14 years 21 days ago
2006
Traditionally, on-line problems have been studied under the assumption that there is a unique sequence of requests that must be served. This approach is common to most general mod...
ALT
2010
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2010
Springer
We address the problem of constructing randomized online algorithms for the Metrical Task Systems (MTS) problem on a metric against an oblivious adversary. Restricting our attenti...
STACS
2004
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2004
Springer
We consider metrical task systems, a general framework to model online problems. Borodin, Linial and Saks [BLS92] presented a deterministic work function algorithm (WFA) for metric...