# Improved Analysis of Online Balanced Clustering

@inproceedings{Bienkowski2021ImprovedAO,
title={Improved Analysis of Online Balanced Clustering},
author={Marcin Bienkowski and Martin B{\"o}hm and Martin Kouteck'y and Thomas Rothvoss and Jir{\'i} Sgall and Pavel Vesel'y},
booktitle={WAOA},
year={2021}
}
• Published in WAOA 30 June 2021
• Computer Science
In the online balanced graph repartitioning problem, one has to maintain a clustering of n nodes into l clusters, each having k = n/l nodes. During runtime, an online algorithm is given a stream of communication requests between pairs of nodes: an inter-cluster communication costs one unit, while the intra-cluster communication is free. An algorithm can change the clustering, paying unit cost for each moved node. This natural problem admits a simple O(l2 ·k2)-competitive algorithm Comp, whose…
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