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2010-12-03 16:00
Improving the Competitive Ratios of the Seat Reservation Problem Kazuya Okamoto, Shuichi Miyazaki (Kyoto Univ.) COMP2010-45 |
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In the seat reservation problem, there are $k$ stations, $s_{1}$
through $s_{k}$, and one train with $n$ seats departing from the
station $s_{1}$ and arriving at the station $s_{k}$. Each passenger
orders a ticket from station $s_{i}$ to station $s_{j}$ ($1 \leq i < j
\leq k$) by specifying $i$ and $j$. The task of an online algorithm
is to assign one of $n$ seats to each passenger online, i.e., without
knowing future requests. The purpose of the problem is to maximize
the total price of the sold tickets. There are two models, the unit
price problem and the proportional price problem, depending on the
pricing policy of tickets. In this paper, we improve upper and lower
bounds on the competitive ratios for both models: For the unit price
problem, we give an upper bound of $\frac{4}{k-2\sqrt{k-1}+4}$, which
improves the previous bound of $\frac{8}{k+5}$. We also give an upper
bound of $\frac{2}{k-2\sqrt{k-1}+2}$ for the competitive ratio of
Worst-Fit algorithm, which improves the previous bound of
$\frac{4}{k-1}$. For the proportional price problem, we give upper
and lower bounds of $\frac{3+\sqrt{13}}{k-1+\sqrt{13}} (\simeq
\frac{6.6}{k+2.6})$ and $\frac{2}{k-1}$, respectively, on the
competitive ratio, which improves the previous bounds of
$\frac{4+2\sqrt{13}}{k+3+2\sqrt{13}} (\simeq \frac{11.2}{k+10.2})$ and
$\frac{1}{k-1}$, respectively. |
Keyword |
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the seat reservation problem / online problem / online algorithms / competitive analysis / / / / |
Reference Info. |
IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 110, no. 325, COMP2010-45, pp. 45-51, Dec. 2010. |
Paper # |
COMP2010-45 |
Date of Issue |
2010-11-26 (COMP) |
ISSN |
Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 |
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2010-12-03 - 2010-12-03 |
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Kyutech Plaza, Kyushu Institute of Technology |
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Improving the Competitive Ratios of the Seat Reservation Problem |
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the seat reservation problem |
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online problem |
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online algorithms |
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Kazuya Okamoto |
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Kyoto University (Kyoto Univ.) |
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Shuichi Miyazaki |
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Kyoto University (Kyoto Univ.) |
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Date Time |
2010-12-03 16:00:00 |
Presentation Time |
35 minutes |
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COMP |
Paper # |
COMP2010-45 |
Volume (vol) |
vol.110 |
Number (no) |
no.325 |
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pp.45-51 |
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7 |
Date of Issue |
2010-11-26 (COMP) |
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