Design of Competitive Online Algorithms via a Primal-Dual Approach - Niv Buchbinder - Bog

Extends the primal-dual method to the setting of online algorithms, and shows its applicability to a wide variety of fundamental problems. Among the online problems considered are the weighted caching problem, generalized caching, the set-cover problem, graph optimization problems, routing, load balancing, and the problem of allocating ad-auctions.