Contact Information |
Instructor:
Prof. Serge Plotkin
E-mail: plotkin@cs.stanford.edu
Office Phone: 723-0540
Office hours: By appointment
TA:
Shayan Ehsani
E-mail: shayane@stanford.edu
Office Hours: Wed 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, Gates B26A
Fri 12:00 PM-2:00 PM, Gates B26A
Time and Location |
Tuesday -Thursday 11AM - 12:15PM
Gates, Room 200
Announcements |
04/04 - Important note: Class attendance is mandatory.
03/22 – Course info
Plan |
Date |
Description |
April 2 |
Intro to Online Algorithms. Paging: offline/online. Marking Algorithm |
April 4 |
Randomized Marking. Online Steiner Tree |
April 9 |
Steiner tree lower bound. Models for Load Balancing and Scheduling. Identical machines |
April 11 |
Related machines: O(log n) for greedy |
April 16 |
Related machines: log n lower bound for greedy O(1) upper bound |
April 18 |
0/infinity load balancing: lower and upper bounds Yao's min/max theorem and its use for lower bounds |
April 23 |
Unrelated machines: log n upper bound. |
April 25 |
CANCELLED. |
May 30 | Temporary tasks; Known durations/unrelated: O(log nT) upper bound. Unknown durations/related: O(1) upper bound. |
May 2 |
Robin hood and O(sqrt n) upper bound for 0/infinity with unknown durations |
May 7 |
Throughput-competitive routing |
May 9 | Online Bipartite Matching Made Simple.(Presenter: Sean Choi) |
May 14 | Adwords and Generalized On-line Matching.(Presenter: Arpit Goel) |
May 16 | A Tight Bound on Approximating Arbitrary Metrics by Tree Metrics.(Presenter: Rafael Cosman) |
May 21 | Buy-at-Bulk Network Design (Presenter: Lucas Garron) |
May 23 | Online decisions problems/experts Randomized weighted majority |
May 28 | Efficient algorithms for online decision problems.(Presenter: Alex Churchill) |
May 30 | Online Convex Programming and Generalized Infinitesimal Gradient Ascent.(Presenter: Jaehyun Park) |
June 4 | CANCELLED |
Handouts |
Current version of notes. Notes will be updated as we progress in the quarter.
Scribing Slots.
Please note that scribing is an integral part of the coursework, and
necessary to pass the class. If you’re registered but haven’t yet
signed up for scribing please do so by send an email to
shayane@stanford.edu. Note that we expect the edited notes one week after the class at the latest.
Homework |
Frequently Asked Questions/Course Policies |
Questions? |
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