An important research thread in algorithmic game theory studies the design of efficient truthful mechanisms that approximate the optimal social welfare. A fundamental question is ...
In competitive analysis, we usually do not put any restrictions on the computational complexity of online algorithms, although efficient algorithms are preferred. Thus if such an...
The problem of on-line bin packing restricted to instances with only two item sizes (known in advance) has a well-known lower bound of 4/3 for its asymptotic competitive ratio. We...
Abstract. Given a family of subsets of an n-element universe, the kcover problem asks whether there are k sets in the family whose union contains the universe; in the k-packing pro...
We follow the work of [7] and study the online bin packing problem, where every item has one of two possible sizes which are known in advance. We focus on the parametric case, whe...