Abstract
A covering integer program (CIP) is a mathematical program of the form: min {c^T x : Ax >= 1, 0 <= x <= u, x integer}, where A is an m x n matrix, and c and u are n-dimensional vectors, all having non-negative entries. In the online setting, the constraints (i.e., the rows of the constraint matrix A) arrive over time, and the algorithm can only increase the coordinates of vector x to maintain feasibility. As an intermediate step, we consider solving the covering linear program (CLP) online, where the integrality requirement on x is dropped. Our main results are (a) an O(log k)-competitive online algorithm for solving the CLP, and (b) an O(log k log L)-competitive randomized online algorithm for solving the CIP. Here k<=n and L<=m respectively denote the maximum number of non-zero entries in any row and column of the constraint matrix A. By a result of Feige and Korman, this is the best possible for polynomial-time online algorithms, even in the special case of set cover.
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