@InProceedings{schafer_et_al:DagSemProc.05031.29, author = {Sch\"{a}fer, Guido and Sivadasan, Naveen}, title = {{Topology Matters: Smoothed Competitiveness of Metrical Task Systems}}, booktitle = {Algorithms for Optimization with Incomplete Information}, pages = {1--5}, series = {Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)}, ISSN = {1862-4405}, year = {2005}, volume = {5031}, editor = {Susanne Albers and Rolf H. M\"{o}hring and Georg Ch. Pflug and R\"{u}diger Schultz}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.05031.29}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-684}, doi = {10.4230/DagSemProc.05031.29}, annote = {Keywords: online algorithm, metrical task systems, work function algorithm, smoothed competitive analysis} }