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COR
2007
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An improved algorithm for the p-center problem on interval graphs with unit lengths
The p-center problem is to locate p facilities in a network of n demand points so as to minimize the longest distance between a demand point and its nearest facility. We consider ...
T. C. Edwin Cheng, Liying Kang, C. T. Ng
COR
2006
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An exact algorithm for the capacitated vertex p-center problem
We develop a simple and practical exact algorithm for the problem of locating p facilities and assigning clients7 to them within capacity restrictions in order to minimize the max...
F. Aykut Özsoy, Mustafa Ç. Pinar
COCOA
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
New Algorithms for k-Center and Extensions
The problem of interest is covering a given point set with homothetic copies of several convex containers C1,...,Ck, while the objective is to minimize the maximum over the dilatat...
René Brandenberg, Lucia Roth
STOC
2004
ACM
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Bypassing the embedding: algorithms for low dimensional metrics
The doubling dimension of a metric is the smallest k such that any ball of radius 2r can be covered using 2k balls of raThis concept for abstract metrics has been proposed as a na...
Kunal Talwar
STOC
2001
ACM
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Provisioning a virtual private network: a network design problem for multicommodity flow
Consider a setting in which a group of nodes, situated in a large underlying network, wishes to reserve bandwidth on which to support communication. Virtual private networks (VPNs...
Anupam Gupta, Jon M. Kleinberg, Amit Kumar, Rajeev...