Public Event Scheduling with Busy Agents

Authors: Bo Li, Lijun Li, Minming Li, Ruilong Zhang

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Theoretical We first show that the problem is NP-hard, and then prove that a simple greedy algorithm achieves 1/2-approximation when the whole timeline is polynomially bounded. Our method also implies a (1-1/e)-approximate algorithm for this case. Subsequently, for the general timeline case, we present an algorithmic framework that extends a 1/alpha-approximate algorithm for the one-event instance to the general case that achieves 1/(alpha+1)-approximation. Finally, we give a polynomial time algorithm that solves the one-event instance, and this implies a 1/2-approximate algorithm for the general case.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Bo Li1 , Lijun Li2 , Minming Li2 and Ruilong Zhang3 1Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 2Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong 3Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1 The Complete Algorithm for PESBA; Algorithm 2 Natural Greedy for SMGC; Algorithm 3 Good Posn
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide an explicit statement about releasing open-source code or a link to a code repository.
Open Datasets No The paper is theoretical and does not involve training on a dataset.
Dataset Splits No The paper is theoretical and does not involve dataset splits for validation.
Hardware Specification No The paper is theoretical and does not describe hardware specifications for running experiments.
Software Dependencies No The paper is theoretical and does not specify software dependencies with version numbers.
Experiment Setup No The paper is theoretical and does not describe an experimental setup with hyperparameters or system-level training settings.