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ICALP
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Facility Location in Sublinear Time
Abstract. In this paper we present a randomized constant factor approximation algorithm for the problem of computing the optimal cost of the metric Minimum Facility Location proble...
Mihai Badoiu, Artur Czumaj, Piotr Indyk, Christian...
SODA
2012
ACM
297views Algorithms» more  SODA 2012»
11 years 8 months ago
Constant factor approximation algorithm for the knapsack median problem
We give a constant factor approximation algorithm for the following generalization of the k-median problem. We are given a set of clients and facilities in a metric space. Each fa...
Amit Kumar
SODA
1998
ACM
106views Algorithms» more  SODA 1998»
13 years 6 months ago
Greedy Strikes Back: Improved Facility Location Algorithms
A fundamental facility location problem is to choose the location of facilities, such as industrial plants and warehouses, to minimize the cost of satisfying the demand for some c...
Sudipto Guha, Samir Khuller
FOCS
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Minimizing Movement in Mobile Facility Location Problems
In the mobile facility location problem, which is a variant of the classical Uncapacitated Facility Location and kMedian problems, each facility and client is assigned to a start ...
Zachary Friggstad, Mohammad R. Salavatipour
WINE
2010
Springer
149views Economy» more  WINE 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
Winner-Imposing Strategyproof Mechanisms for Multiple Facility Location Games
We study Facility Location games, where a number of facilities are placed in a metric space based on locations reported by strategic agents. A mechanism maps the agents' locat...
Dimitris Fotakis, Christos Tzamos