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Online Algorithms

Semester
Summer 2024
Summer 2022Summer 2020
Module #INF-ALG-07
Event #INF-ALG-013, INF-ALG-014
ProgrammesComputer Science Master, Computer and Communication Systems Engineering Master, Business Information Systems Master
IBR GroupALG (Prof. Fekete)
TypeLecture & Exercise
Lecturer
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Prof. Dr. Sándor P. Fekete
Abteilungsleiter
s.fekete[[at]]tu-bs.de
+49 531 3913111
Room 335
Assistant
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Peter Kramer
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
kramer[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
+49 531 3913113
Room 332
Hiwi
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Tobias Wallner
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
wallner[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
+49 531 3913116
Room 315
Credits5
Hours2+1+1
Time & Place

Every second year from summer term 2016

Lecture: Tuesdays, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Room SN19.1)
Tutorials: Mondays, 1:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. (Room SN19.2)
Start The first lecture will take place on the 9th of April.
The tutorial will kick-off on the 15th of April.
Prerequisites none
LanguageEnglish
Certificates

Successful participation in written homework assignments and final exam.

Content

Participants will learn fundamental modeling, design and analysis of online algorithms.
Topics include:

  1. Competitive Analysis
  2. Self-Organizing Data Structures
  3. Distributed Paging
  4. Online Scheduling
  5. Robot Motion Planning (Exploration, Search)
  6. Online Packing.
References

In the lecture - among other sources - the book "Online Algorithms, State of the Art" by Fiat/Woeginger (1998) is used.

Online edition (eduroam)

Another book on Online Algorithms is "Online Computation and Competitive Analysis" by Borodin/El-Yaniv.

Mailing list

There is a mailing list for this lecture. Please subscribe, as we will use it to share information on short notice.

Tutorial and homework

Homework sheets will be handed out during the exercise courses and discussed in the small exercises three weeks later. The deadline for each is two weeks later; a written solution must be handed in before the exercise (before Monday 1:15 pm) in the boxes in front of Room 338. In special cases, it is also possible to hand in at the start of each exercise.

Date Event Content
09.04.2024Lecture #1 The Ski Rental Problem
15.04.2024 Exercise Kick-Off [Sheet 0]
16.04.2024Lecture #2 Online Scheduling Problems
22.04.2024 [Exercise #1] [Sheet 1]
23.04.2024Lecture #3 The Paging Problem
29.04.2024 Small exercise #1 Discussion [Sheet 0]
30.04.2024Lecture #4 The Paging Problem (Detour on Collectibles, Adversaries)
06.05.2024 Exercise #2 [Sheet 2]
07.05.2024Lecture #5 The Paging Problem (Randomized Marking)
13.05.2024 Small exercise #2 Discussion [Sheet 1]
14.05.2024Lecture #6 The File Migration Problem (Lower Bound, Coin Flipping)
20.05.2024 (Public holiday) -
27.05.2024 Exercise #3 [Sheet 3]
28.05.2024Lecture #7 The File Migration Problem (Move-To-Min)
03.06.2024 Small exercise #3 Discussion [Sheet 2]
04.06.2024 Lecture #8 Online Robots (Looking Around a Corner)
10.06.2024 Exercise #4 [Sheet 4]
11.06.2024 (no lecture)
17.06.2024 Small exercise #4 Discussion [Sheet 3]
18.06.2024 Lecture #9 Online Robots
24.06.2024 Lecture #10 Online Robots
25.06.2024 Lecture #11 Online Robots
01.07.2024 Small exercise #5 Discussion [Sheet 4]
02.07.2024 (no lecture)
08.07.2024 Exercise #5 Q&A, Overview, Exam preparation
09.07.2024 Lecture #12 Geometric Packing

Material

On the materials page you will find video recordings of the lectures and exercises from 2022. These are going to be provided step by step as the semester goes on.


last changed 2024-07-30, 23:05 by Peter Kramer

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