Tight online conflict-free coloring of intervals

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Department of Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

‎We ‎revisit the problem of online conflict-free coloring of intervals on a line‎, ‎where each newly inserted interval must be assigned a color upon insertion such that the coloring remains conflict-free‎, ‎i.e‎. ‎for each point $p$ in the union of the current intervals‎, ‎there must be an interval $I$ with a unique color among all intervals covering $p$‎. ‎To best of our knowledge, the ‎best-‎known ‎algorithm ‎uses‎ $O(\log^3 n )$ ‎colors, where $n$ is the number of current intervals‎. ‎We‎ present a simple greedy algorithm that uses only $O(\log n)$ colors. Therefore, we settle down the open problem raised in \cite{ars1‎4‎}.

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Scientia Iranica
Volume 28, Special issue on collective behavior of nonlinear dynamical networks
Transactions on Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering (D)
June 2021
Pages 1493-1496

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  • Receive Date: 28 October 2019
  • Revise Date: 06 August 2020
  • Accept Date: 02 November 2020

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