POMACS · 2020

Competitive Algorithms for the Online Multiple Knapsack Problem with Application to Electric Vehicle Charging

Bo Sun, Ali Zeynali, Tongxin Li, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, Adam Wierman, Danny H. K. Tsang

Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems

How should limited resources be allocated to requests arriving online?

A general fractional multiple knapsack model captures assignment and rate constraints. An online primal dual algorithm obtains near optimal competitive guarantees and is evaluated using charging traces. This work provides an online allocation foundation without requiring learned predictions.

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Bo Sun, Ali Zeynali, Tongxin Li, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, Adam Wierman, Danny H. K. Tsang. Competitive Algorithms for the Online Multiple Knapsack Problem with Application to Electric Vehicle Charging. Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3428336

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@article{tongxin-online-knapsack,
  title = {{Competitive Algorithms for the Online Multiple Knapsack Problem with Application to Electric Vehicle Charging}},
  author = {Bo Sun and Ali Zeynali and Tongxin Li and Mohammad Hajiesmaili and Adam Wierman and Danny H. K. Tsang},
  year = {2020},
  journal = {Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3428336},
  doi = {10.1145/3428336}
}

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