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20102026
most citedThe Sorting Buffer Problem is NP-hard

10 citations · 31 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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36 papers

cs.GT2026

Online Fair Division under Eligibility Constraints

Joes Biburger, Nicole Megow, Golnoosh Shahkarami

We study fair division of indivisible items under eligibility constraints: each item may be assigned only to a subset of eligible agents. This model coincides with restricted assig…

cs.DS2026

A Consistency-Robustness Framework for Robust Optimization: Integrating Predictions into Robust Scheduling

Yasser Alghouass, Eric Balkanski, Vineet Goyal +1

Robust optimization protects against uncertainty by optimizing for the worst case over a prescribed uncertainty set. This protection can be overly conservative when forecasts, hist…

cs.DS2023

Santa Claus meets Makespan and Matroids: Algorithms and Reductions

Étienne Bamas, Alexander Lindermayr, Nicole Megow +2

In this paper we study the relation of two fundamental problems in scheduling and fair allocation: makespan minimization on unrelated parallel machines and max-min fair allocation,…

cs.DS2023★ 3 cited

Recoverable Robust Optimization with Commitment

Felix Hommelsheim, Nicole Megow, Komal Muluk +1

We propose a model for recoverable robust optimization with commitment. Given a combinatorial optimization problem and uncertainty about elements that may fail, we ask for a robust…

cs.DS2023

Sorting and Hypergraph Orientation under Uncertainty with Predictions

Thomas Erlebach, Murilo Santos de Lima, Nicole Megow +1

Learning-augmented algorithms have been attracting increasing interest, but have only recently been considered in the setting of explorable uncertainty where precise values of unce…

cs.CC2023★ 1 cited

On Solution Discovery via Reconfiguration

Michael R. Fellows, Mario Grobler, Nicole Megow +5

The dynamics of real-world applications and systems require efficient methods for improving infeasible solutions or restoring corrupted ones by making modifications to the current…

cs.DS2023★ 1 cited

Speed-Oblivious Online Scheduling: Knowing (Precise) Speeds is not Necessary

Alexander Lindermayr, Nicole Megow, Martin Rapp

We consider online scheduling on unrelated (heterogeneous) machines in a speed-oblivious setting, where an algorithm is unaware of the exact job-dependent processing speeds. We sho…

cs.DS2023★ 1 cited

Minimalistic Predictions to Schedule Jobs with Online Precedence Constraints

Alexandra Lassota, Alexander Lindermayr, Nicole Megow +1

We consider non-clairvoyant scheduling with online precedence constraints, where an algorithm is oblivious to any job dependencies and learns about a job only if all of its predece…

cs.DS2022

Matching Augmentation via Simultaneous Contractions

Mohit Garg, Felix Hommelsheim, Nicole Megow

We consider the matching augmentation problem (MAP), where a matching of a graph needs to be extended into a -edge-connected spanning subgraph by adding the minimum number of ed…

cs.DS2022★ 1 cited

Set Selection under Explorable Stochastic Uncertainty via Covering Techniques

Nicole Megow, Jens Schlöter

Given subsets of uncertain values, we study the problem of identifying the subset of minimum total value (sum of the uncertain values) by querying as few values as possible. This s…

cs.DS2022

Configuration Balancing for Stochastic Requests

Franziska Eberle, Anupam Gupta, Nicole Megow +2

The configuration balancing problem with stochastic requests generalizes many well-studied resource allocation problems such as load balancing and virtual circuit routing. In it, w…

cs.DS2022

Learning-Augmented Query Policies for Minimum Spanning Tree with Uncertainty

Thomas Erlebach, Murilo Santos de Lima, Nicole Megow +1

We study how to utilize (possibly erroneous) predictions in a model for computing under uncertainty in which an algorithm can query unknown data. Our aim is to minimize the number…

cs.DS2022★ 1 cited

A Universal Error Measure for Input Predictions Applied to Online Graph Problems

Giulia Bernardini, Alexander Lindermayr, Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela +3

We introduce a novel measure for quantifying the error in input predictions. The error is based on a minimum-cost hyperedge cover in a suitably defined hypergraph and provides a ge…

cs.DS2022

Permutation Predictions for Non-Clairvoyant Scheduling

Alexander Lindermayr, Nicole Megow

In non-clairvoyant scheduling, the task is to find an online strategy for scheduling jobs with a priori unknown processing requirements with the objective to minimize the total (we…

cs.LG2021

Robustification of Online Graph Exploration Methods

Franziska Eberle, Alexander Lindermayr, Nicole Megow +2

Exploring unknown environments is a fundamental task in many domains, e.g., robot navigation, network security, and internet search. We initiate the study of a learning-augmented v…

cs.CC2021

On Complexity of 1-Center in Various Metrics

Amir Abboud, Mohammad Hossein Bateni, Vincent Cohen-Addad +2

We consider the classic 1-center problem: Given a set of points in a metric space find the point in that minimizes the maximum distance to the other points of . We s…

cs.DS2021

Orienting (hyper)graphs under explorable stochastic uncertainty

Evripidis Bampis, Christoph Dürr, Thomas Erlebach +3

Given a hypergraph with uncertain node weights following known probability distributions, we study the problem of querying as few nodes as possible until the identity of a node wit…

cs.LG2021

Double Coverage with Machine-Learned Advice

Alexander Lindermayr, Nicole Megow, Bertrand Simon

We study the fundamental online k-server problem in a learning-augmented setting. While in the traditional online model, an algorithm has no information about the request sequence,…

cs.DS2020

Learning-Augmented Query Policies

Thomas Erlebach, Murilo S. de Lima, Nicole Megow +1

We study how to utilize (possibly machine-learned) predictions in a model for computing under uncertainty in which an algorithm can query unknown data. The goal is to minimize the…

cs.DS2020

Speed-Robust Scheduling -- Sand, Bricks, and Rocks

Franziska Eberle, Ruben Hoeksma, Nicole Megow +3

The speed-robust scheduling problem is a two-stage problem where given machines, jobs must be grouped into at most bags while the processing speeds of the given machine…

cs.DS2020

Fully Dynamic Algorithms for Knapsack Problems with Polylogarithmic Update Time

Franziska Eberle, Nicole Megow, Lukas Nölke +2

Knapsack problems are among the most fundamental problems in optimization. In the Multiple Knapsack problem, we are given multiple knapsacks with different capacities and items wit…

cs.DS2020

On Hop-Constrained Steiner Trees in Tree-Like Metrics

Martin Böhm, Ruben Hoeksma, Nicole Megow +2

We consider the problem of computing a Steiner tree of minimum cost under a hop constraint which requires the depth of the tree to be at most . Our main result is an exact algor…

cs.DS2020

Online Minimum Cost Matching on the Line with Recourse

Nicole Megow, Lukas Nölke

In online minimum cost matching on the line, requests appear one by one and have to be matched immediately and irrevocably to a given set of servers, all on the real line. The…

cs.DS2019★ 2 cited

Energy Minimization in DAG Scheduling on MPSoCs at Run-Time: Theory and Practice

Bertrand Simon, Joachim Falk, Nicole Megow +1

Static (offline) techniques for mapping applications given by task graphs to MPSoC systems often deliver overly pessimistic and thus suboptimal results w.r.t. exploiting time slack…