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PODC
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
In this paper, we initiate the study of the approximability of the facility location problem in a distributed setting. In particular, we explore a trade-off between the amount of...
SODA
1998
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
1998
ACM
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...
ANOR
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
The quality of multi-stage stochastic optimization models as they appear in asset liability management, energy planning, transportation, supply chain management, and other applicat...
SODA
2012
ACM
11 years 7 months ago
2012
ACM
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...
JCSS
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
We present a simple randomized algorithmic framework for connected facility location problems. The basic idea is as follows: We run a black-box approximation algorithm for the unc...