Randomized online interval scheduling

  • Authors:
  • Steven S. Seiden

  • Affiliations:
  • TU Graz, Institut für Mathematik B, Steyrergasse 30/2 Stock, A-8010 Graz, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Online interval scheduling problems arise in important application areas such as continuous media and call control. Woeginger gives an optimal 4-competitive deterministic algorithm for online interval scheduling. He leaves as an open problem whether randomization can be used to achieve a competitive ratio less than 4. A randomized (2+3