On-line seat reservations via off-line seating arrangements

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Jens S. Kohrt and Kim S. Larsen. On-line seat reservations via off-line seating arrangements. International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, 16(2):381-397, April 2005.

Abstract:

When reservations are made to for instance a train, it is an on-line problem to accept or reject, i.e., decide if a person can be fitted in given all earlier reservations. However, determining a seating arrangement, implying that it is safe to accept, is an off-line problem with the earlier reservations and the current one as input. We develop algorithms with optimal running time to handle problems of this nature.

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