@InProceedings{grigorescu_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2021.5, author = {Grigorescu, Elena and Lin, Young-San and Quanrud, Kent}, title = {{Online Directed Spanners and Steiner Forests}}, booktitle = {Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2021)}, pages = {5:1--5:25}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-207-5}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2021}, volume = {207}, editor = {Wootters, Mary and Sanit\`{a}, Laura}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2021.5}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-146987}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2021.5}, annote = {Keywords: online directed pairwise spanners, online directed Steiner forests, online covering/packing linear programming, primal-dual approach} }