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# Online Convex Covering and Packing Problems

@article{Chan2015OnlineCC,
title={Online Convex Covering and Packing Problems},
author={T-H. Hubert Chan and Zhiyi Huang and Ning Kang},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2015},
volume={abs/1502.01802}
}
• Published 5 February 2015
• Mathematics, Computer Science
• ArXiv
We study the online convex covering problem and online convex packing problem. The (offline) convex covering problem is modeled by the following convex program: $\min_{x \in R_+^n} f(x) \ \text{s.t}\ A x \ge 1$, where $f : R_+^n \mapsto R_+$ is a monotone and convex cost function, and $A$ is an $m \times n$ matrix with non-negative entries. Each row of the constraint matrix $A$ corresponds to a covering constraint. In the online problem, each row of $A$ comes online and the algorithm must…
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