Packing random intervals on-line

Algorithmica (New York)

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 448-476

  Coffman Jr , E G ^a   Flatto, L ^a   Jelenkovic P ^a   Poonen, B ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic probabilistic analysis; Interval packing; On line packing; Parking problem; Reservation systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001100583     PISSN: 01784617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/pl00009233     Document Type: Article

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