The online house numbering problem: Min-max online list labeling

William E. Devanny, Jeremy T. Fineman, Michael T. Goodrich, Tsvi Kopelowitz

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Abstract

We introduce and study the online house numbering problem, where houses are added arbitrarily along a road and must be assigned labels to maintain their ordering along the road. The online house numbering problem is related to classic online list labeling problems, except that the optimization goal here is to minimize the maximum number of times that any house is relabeled. We provide several algorithms that achieve interesting tradeoffs between upper bounds on the number of maximum relabels per element and the number of bits used by labels.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication25th European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA 2017
EditorsChristian Sohler, Kirk Pruhs
PublisherSchloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing
ISBN (Electronic)9783959770491
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Sep 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event25th European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA 2017 - Vienna, Austria
Duration: 4 Sep 20176 Sep 2017

Publication series

NameLeibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs
Volume87

Conference

Conference25th European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA 2017
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityVienna
Period4/09/176/09/17

Keywords

  • File maintenance
  • House numbering
  • List labeling

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software

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