Competitive Online Algorithms
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Overview Over the past ten years, online algorithms have received considerable research interest. Online problems had been investigated already in the seventies and early eighties but an extensive, systematic study only started when Sleator and Tarjan (1985) suggested comparing an online algorithm to an optimal ooine algorithm and Karlin, Manasse, Rudolph and Sleator (1988) coined the term competitive analysis. In this article we give an introduction to the theory of online algorithms and survey interesting application areas. We present important results and outline directions for future research.
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