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I am a post-doctoral researcher at Microsoft Research, New England at Cambridge, MA.

Previously, I was a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science dept. at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology under the supervision of Prof Seffi Naor.

Contact Information

Microsoft, 1 Memorial dr.
Cambridge, MA, 02142

Phone:

1-857-453-6326

E-mail:

nivbuchb@microsoft.com

Survey

*      The Design of Competitive Online Algorithms via a Primal-Dual Approach. Niv Buchbinder and Joseph (Seffi) Naor. Foundations and Trends® in Theoretical Computer Science. [pdf]

Conference Publications

*      The Online Set Cover Problem. Noga Alon, Baruch Awerbuch, Yossi Azar, Niv Buchbinder, and Seffi Naor, 35th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2003), pp. 100-105. [ps]

*      Lower and Upper Bounds on Obtaining History Independence. Niv Buchbinder and Erez Petrank, 23rd Annual Int. Cryptography Conference (Crypto 2003), pp. 445-462. [ps]

*      A General Approach to Online Network Optimization Problems. Noga Alon, Baruch Awerbuch, Yossi Azar, Niv Buchbinder, and Seffi Naor, ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2004). [ps]

*      Online Primal-Dual Algorithms for Covering and Packing Problems. Niv Buchbinder and Seffi Naor, 13th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2005) [ps] full version [pdf]

*      Fair Online Load Balancing. Niv Buchbinder and Seffi Naor, 18th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA 2006) [ps]

*      Improved Bounds for Online Routing and Packing via a Primal-Dual Approach. Niv Buchbinder and Seffi Naor, 47th annual ieee Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2006) [ps]

*      Online Primal-Dual Algorithms for Maximizing Ad-Auctions Revenue. Niv Buchbinder, Kamal Jain and Seffi Naor, 15th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2007) - Best Paper [ps]

*      An O(log2k)-competitive Algorithm for Metric Bipartite Matching. Nikhil Bansal, Niv Buchbinder, Anupam Gupta, Seffi Naor, 15th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2007) [ps]

*      A Primal-Dual Randomized Algorithm for Weighted Paging. Nikhil Bansal, Niv Buchbinder and Seffi Naor, 48th annual ieee Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2007).[pdf]

*      Online Make-to-Order Joint Replenishment Model: Primal Dual Competitive Algorithms. Niv Buchbinder, Tracy Kimbrel, Retsef Levi, Konstantin Makarychev and Maxim Sviridenko, (SODA 2008). [ps]

*      Non-cooperative Cost Sharing Games via Subsidies. Niv Buchbinder, Liane Lewin-Eytan, Joseph (Seffi) Naor, Ariel Orda, 1st International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT 2008). [pdf]

*      Randomized Competitive Algorithms for Generalized Caching. Nikhil Bansal, Niv Buchbinder and Seffi Naor, 40th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2008). [pdf]

*      Dynamic Power Allocation under Arbitrary Varying Channels -- An Online Approach. Niv Buchbinder, Liane Lewin-Eytan, Ishai Menache, Seffi Naor and Ariel Orda, 28th Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2009). [pdf]

*      Towards the Randomized k-Server Conjecture: A Primal-Dual Approach. Nikhil Bansal, Niv Buchbinder and Seffi Naor, ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2010). [pdf]

*      Dynamic Power Allocation under Arbitrary Varying Channels – The Multi-User Case. Niv Buchbinder, Liane Lewin-Eytan, Ishai Menache, Seffi Naor and Ariel Orda, 29th Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2010).

*      Frequency Capping in Online Advertising. Niv Buchbinder, Moran Feldman, Arpita Ghosh and Seffi Naor, submitted.

*      Unfair Metrical Task Systems on HSTs and Applications. Nikhil Bansal, Niv Buchbinder and Seffi Naor, submitted.

*      Maximizing Social Welfare Online. Yossi Azar, Niv Buchbinder and Kamal Jain, submitted.

*      Incentives in Online Auctions and Secretary Problems via Linear Programming. Niv Buchbinder, Kamal Jain and Mohit Singh, submitted.

Journal Publications

*      Lower and Upper Bounds on Obtaining History Independence. Niv Buchbinder and Erez Petrank.
Information and Computation, volume 204, Issue 2 (February 2006), pp. 291-337.

*      A General Approach to Online Network Optimization Problems. Noga Alon, Baruch Awerbuch, Yossi Azar, Niv Buchbinder, and Seffi Naor. ACM Transactions on Algorithms, Volume 2, Number 4 (October 2006), pp. 640-660.

*      Non-cooperative Cost Sharing Games via Subsidies. Niv Buchbinder, Liane Lewin-Eytan, Joseph (Seffi) Naor, Ariel Orda, accepted to Theory of Computing Systems.

*      Online Primal-Dual Algorithms for Covering and Packing Problems. Niv Buchbinder and Seffi Naor,  Mathematics of Operations Research Vol. 34, No. 2, May 2009, pp. 270-286

*      The Online Set Cover Problem. Noga Alon, Baruch Awerbuch, Yossi Azar, Niv Buchbinder, and Seffi Naor, SIAM J. Computing Volume 39, Issue 2, pp. 361-370 (2009)

PhD. Thesis

*      The Design of Competitive Online Algorithms via a Primal-Dual Approach. Advisor: Prof. Seffi Naor
  Computer Science Department, Technion, Israel, September 2008.
[pdf]

M.Sc. Thesis

*      Lower and Upper Bounds on Obtaining History Independence. Advisor: Prof. Erez Petrank
  Computer Science Department, Technion, Israel, November 2003. [ps]