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COCOON
2006
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
On Dynamic Bin Packing: An Improved Lower Bound and Resource Augmentation Analysis
We study the dynamic bin packing problem introduced by Coffman, Garey and Johnson. This problem is a generalization of the bin packing problem in which items may arrive and depart...
Wun-Tat Chan, Prudence W. H. Wong, Fencol C. C. Yu...
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ICPP
1998
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Improving Parallel-Disk Buffer Management using Randomized Writeback
We address the problems of I/O scheduling and buffer management for general reference strings in a parallel I/O system. Using the standard parallel disk model withD disks and a sh...
Mahesh Kallahalla, Peter J. Varman
WAOA
2007
Springer
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15 years 3 months ago
Better Bounds for Incremental Medians
In the incremental version of the well-known k-median problem the objective is to compute an incremental sequence of facility sets F1 ⊆ F2 ⊆ .... ⊆ Fn, where each Fk contain...
Marek Chrobak, Mathilde Hurand
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COCOON
2007
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
An Improved Algorithm for Online Unit Clustering
Abstract. We revisit the online unit clustering problem in one dimension which we recently introduced at WAOA'06: given a sequence of n points on the line, the objective is to...
Hamid Zarrabi-Zadeh, Timothy M. Chan
ICALP
2004
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Online Scheduling of Equal-Length Jobs: Randomization and Restarts Help
We consider the following scheduling problem. The input is a set of jobs with equal processing times, where each job is specified by its release time and deadline. The goal is to ...
Marek Chrobak, Wojciech Jawor, Jiri Sgall, Tom&aac...