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SODA
1998
ACM
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Online Throughput-Competitive Algorithm for Multicast Routing and Admission Control
We present the first polylog-competitive online algorithm for the general multicast admission control and routing problem in the throughput model. The ratio of the number of reque...
Ashish Goel, Monika Rauch Henzinger, Serge A. Plot...
NIPS
2008
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An Online Algorithm for Maximizing Submodular Functions
We present an algorithm for solving a broad class of online resource allocation . Our online algorithm can be applied in environments where abstract jobs arrive one at a time, and...
Matthew J. Streeter, Daniel Golovin
COLT
2008
Springer
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Extracting Certainty from Uncertainty: Regret Bounded by Variation in Costs
Prediction from expert advice is a fundamental problem in machine learning. A major pillar of the field is the existence of learning algorithms whose average loss approaches that ...
Elad Hazan, Satyen Kale
COLT
2005
Springer
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From External to Internal Regret
External regret compares the performance of an online algorithm, selecting among N actions, to the performance of the best of those actions in hindsight. Internal regret compares ...
Avrim Blum, Yishay Mansour
ESA
1995
Springer
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The Online Transportation Problem
We present a poly-log-competitive deterministic online algorithm for the online transportation problem on hierarchically separated trees when the online algorithm has one extra se...
Bala Kalyanasundaram, Kirk Pruhs
STACS
2000
Springer
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On the Competitive Ratio of the Work Function Algorithm for the k-Server Problem
The k-server problem is one of the most fundamental online problems. The problem is to schedule k mobile servers to visit a sequence of points in a metric space with minimum total...
Yair Bartal, Elias Koutsoupias
ESA
2004
Springer
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On Variable-Sized Multidimensional Packing
The main contribution of this paper is an optimal bounded space online algorithm for variable-sized multidimensional packing. In this problem, hyperboxes must be packed in ddimens...
Leah Epstein, Rob van Stee
ARCS
2006
Springer
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Power-Aware Collective Tree Exploration
An n-node tree has to be explored by a group of k mobile robots deployed initially at the root. Robots traverse the edges of the tree until all nodes are visited. We would like to ...
Miroslaw Dynia, Miroslaw Korzeniowski, Christian S...
HPCC
2007
Springer
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Energy-Aware Online Algorithm to Satisfy Sampling Rates with Guaranteed Probability for Sensor Applications
Abstract. Energy consumption is a major factor that limits the performance of sensor applications. Sensor nodes have varying sampling rates since they face continuously changing en...
Meikang Qiu, Edwin Hsing-Mean Sha
RANDOM
1999
Springer
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Scheduling with Unexpected Machine Breakdowns
We investigate an online version of a basic scheduling problem where a set of jobs has to be scheduled on a number of identical machines so as to minimize the makespan. The job pr...
Susanne Albers, Günter Schmidt