@InProceedings{coester_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.57, author = {Coester, Christian and Koutsoupias, Elias}, title = {{Towards the k-Server Conjecture: A Unifying Potential, Pushing the Frontier to the Circle}}, booktitle = {48th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2021)}, pages = {57:1--57:20}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-195-5}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2021}, volume = {198}, editor = {Bansal, Nikhil and Merelli, Emanuela and Worrell, James}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.57}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-141263}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2021.57}, annote = {Keywords: Online algorithms, competitive analysis, k-server, work function algorithm} }