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JMLR
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
The Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem (UFLP) is one of the most widely studied discrete location problems, whose applications arise in a variety of settings. We tackle the U...
SODA
2001
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2001
ACM
d Abstract) Moses Charikar Samir Khullery David M. Mountz Giri Narasimhanx Facility location problems are traditionally investigated with the assumption that all the clients are t...
PODC
2005
ACM
14 years 29 days 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
2012
ACM
11 years 9 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...
SODA
1998
ACM
13 years 8 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...