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Online Budgeted Maximum Coverage

Authors Dror Rawitz, Adi Rosén

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  • budgeted coverage
  • maximum coverage
  • online algorithms
  • competitive analysis
  • removable online knapsack

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Abstract

We study the Online Budgeted Maximum Coverage (OBMC) problem.  Subsets of a weighted ground set U arrive one by one, where each set has a cost.  The online algorithm has to select a collection of sets, under the constraint that their cost is at most a given budget.  Upon arrival of a set the algorithm must decide whether to accept or to reject the arriving set, and it may also drop previously accepted sets (preemption).  Rejecting or dropping a set is irrevocable.  The goal is to maximize the total weight of the elements covered by the sets in the chosen collection.

We present a deterministic 4/(1-r)-competitive algorithm for OBMC, where r is the maximum ratio between the cost of a set and
the total budget. Building on that algorithm, we then present a randomized O(1)-competitive algorithm for OBMC. On the other hand, we show that the competitive ratio of any deterministic online algorithm is Omega(1/(sqrt{1-r})).

We also give a deterministic O(Delta)-competitive algorithm, where Delta is the maximum weight of a set (given that the minimum element weight is 1), and if the total weight of all elements, w(U), is known in advance, we show that a slight modification of that algorithm is O(min{Delta,sqrt{w(U)}})-competitive. A matching lower bound of Omega(min{Delta,sqrt{w(U)}}) is also given.

Previous to the present work, only the unit cost version of OBMC  was studied under the online setting, giving a 4-competitive algorithm [Saha, Getoor, 2009]. Finally, our results, including the lower bounds, apply to Removable Online Knapsack which is the preemptive version of the Online Knapsack problem.

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Dror Rawitz and Adi Rosén. Online Budgeted Maximum Coverage. In 24th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 57, pp. 73:1-73:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2016.73

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Dror Rawitz
Adi Rosén

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