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COCOON
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Online Interval Scheduling: Randomized and Multiprocessor Cases
We consider the problem of scheduling a set of equal-length intervals arriving online, where each interval is associated with a weight and the objective is to maximize the total we...
Stanley P. Y. Fung, Chung Keung Poon, Feifeng Zhen...
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SIGECOM
2004
ACM
105views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
15 years 2 months ago
Mechanism design for online real-time scheduling
For the problem of online real-time scheduling of jobs on a single processor, previous work presents matching upper and lower bounds on the competitive ratio that can be achieved ...
Ryan Porter
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SIROCCO
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Why Robots Need Maps
Abstract. A large group of autonomous, mobile entities e.g. robots initially placed at some arbitrary node of the graph has to jointly visit all nodes (not necessarily all edges) a...
Miroslaw Dynia, Jakub Lopuszanski, Christian Schin...
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IOPADS
1997
152views more  IOPADS 1997»
14 years 11 months ago
Competitive Parallel Disk Prefetching and Buffer Management
We provide a competitive analysis framework for online prefetching and buffer management algorithms in parallel I/O systems, using a read-once model of block references. This has ...
Rakesh D. Barve, Mahesh Kallahalla, Peter J. Varma...
ESA
2006
Springer
82views Algorithms» more  ESA 2006»
15 years 1 months ago
Preemptive Online Scheduling: Optimal Algorithms for All Speeds
Our main result is an optimal online algorithm for preemptive scheduling on uniformly related machines with the objective to minimize makespan. The algorithm is deterministic, yet...
Tomás Ebenlendr, Wojciech Jawor, Jiri Sgall