TY - GEN
T1 - Variable sized online interval coloring with bandwidth
AU - Epstein, Leah
AU - Erlebach, Thomas
AU - Levin, Asaf
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - We consider online coloring of intervals with bandwidth in a setting where colors have variable capacities. Whenever the algorithm opens a new color, it must choose the capacity for that color and cannot change it later. The goal is to minimize the total capacity of all the colors used. We consider the bounded model, where all capacities must be chosen in the range (0, 1], and the unbounded model, where the algorithm may use colors of any positive capacity. For the absolute competitive ratio, we give an upper bound of 14 and a lower bound of 4.59 for the bounded model, and an upper bound of 4 and a matching lower bound of 4 for the unbounded model. We also consider the offline version of these problems and show that the unbounded model is polynomially solvable, while the bounded model is NP-hard in the strong sense and admits a 3.6-approximation algorithm.
AB - We consider online coloring of intervals with bandwidth in a setting where colors have variable capacities. Whenever the algorithm opens a new color, it must choose the capacity for that color and cannot change it later. The goal is to minimize the total capacity of all the colors used. We consider the bounded model, where all capacities must be chosen in the range (0, 1], and the unbounded model, where the algorithm may use colors of any positive capacity. For the absolute competitive ratio, we give an upper bound of 14 and a lower bound of 4.59 for the bounded model, and an upper bound of 4 and a matching lower bound of 4 for the unbounded model. We also consider the offline version of these problems and show that the unbounded model is polynomially solvable, while the bounded model is NP-hard in the strong sense and admits a 3.6-approximation algorithm.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33746441114&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/11785293_6
DO - 10.1007/11785293_6
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33746441114
SN - 354035753X
SN - 9783540357537
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 29
EP - 40
BT - Biomedical Simulation - Third International Symposium, ISBMS 2006, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 10th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory, SWAT 2006
Y2 - 6 July 2006 through 8 July 2006
ER -