Journal: Algorithmica

Found 758 papers in total
Combinatorial algorithms for unsplittable flow problem
2006,
We provide combinatorial algorithms for the unsplittable flow problem (UFP) that...
Minimizing makespan and preemption costs on a system of uniform machines
2005,
It is well known that for preemptive scheduling on uniform machines there exist...
The k-splittable flow problem
2005,
In traditional multi-commodity flow theory, the task is to send a certain amount of...
Improved approximations for tour and tree covers
2003,
A tree (tour) cover of an edge-weighted graph is a set of edges which forms a tree...
Approximation algorithms for a capacitated network design problem
2003,
We study a capacitated network design problem with applications in local access...
A cut-based algorithm for the nonlinear dual of the minimum cost network flow problem
2004,
We consider a convex, or nonlinear, separable minimization problem with constraints...
Simple on-line algorithms for the maximum disjoint paths problem
2004,
In this paper we study the classical problem of finding disjoint paths in graphs. This...
A branch-checking algorithm for all-pairs shortest paths
2004,
We formulate and study an algorithm for all-pairs shortest paths in a network with n...
Average-case competitive analyses for ski-rental problems
2005,
Let s be the ratio of the cost for purchasing skis over the cost for renting them....
Minimizing mean completion time in a batch processing system
2004,
We consider batch processing jobs to minimize the mean completion time. A batch...
Approximation schemes for scheduling on uniformly related and identical parallel machines
2004,
We give a polynomial approximation scheme for the problem of scheduling on uniformly...
Scheduling malleable parallel tasks: An asymptotic fully polynomial time approximation scheme
2004,
A malleable parallel task is one whose execution time is a function of the number of...
Minimizing makespan in batch machine scheduling
2004,
We study the scheduling of a set of n jobs, each characterized by a release (arrival)...
Online and offline algorithms for the time-dependent traveling salesman problem with time zones
2004,
The time-dependent traveling salesman problem (TDTSP) is a variant of TSP with...
New approximation results for the maximum scatter traveling salesperson problem
2005,
We consider the following maximum scatter traveling salesperson problem (TSP): given...
Algorithms for minimizing response time in broadcast scheduling
2004,
In this paper we study the following problem. There are n pages which clients can...
An approximation algorithm for the fault tolerant metric facility location problem
2003,
We consider a fault tolerant version of the metric facility location problem in which...
Primal–dual algorithms for connected facility location problems
2004,
We consider the Connected Facility Location problem. We are given a graph G = (...
The power of priority algorithms for facility location and set cover
2004,
We apply and extend the priority algorithm framework introduced by Borodin, Nielsen,...
The data broadcast problem with non-uniform transmission times
2003,
The Data Broadcast Problem consists of finding an infinite schedule to broadcast a...
A distributed ant algorithm for efficiently patrolling a network
2003,
We consider the problem of patrolling, i.e. ongoing exploration of a network by a...
An approximation algorithm for a large-scale facility location problem
2003,
We developed a new practical optimization method that gives approximate solutions for...
Finding a region with the minimum total L-1 distance from prescribed terminals
2003,
Given k terminals and n axis-parallel rectangular obstacles on the plane, algorithm...
A heuristic for Dijkstra's algorithm with many targets and its use in weighted matching algorithms
2003,
We consider the single-source many-targets shortest-path (SSMTSP) problem in directed...
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