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ICALP
2005
Springer
14 years 1 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...
PODC
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Facility location: distributed approximation
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...
Thomas Moscibroda, Roger Wattenhofer
ESA
2004
Springer
128views Algorithms» more  ESA 2004»
14 years 28 days ago
Incremental Algorithms for Facility Location and k-Median
In the incremental versions of Facility Location and k-Median, the demand points arrive one at a time and the algorithm must maintain a good solution by either adding each new dema...
Dimitris Fotakis
AAIM
2008
Springer
90views Algorithms» more  AAIM 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
Facility Location Problems: A Parameterized View
Facility Location can be seen as a whole family of problems which have many obvious applications in economics. They have been widely explored in the Operations Research community, ...
Michael R. Fellows, Henning Fernau
SODA
1998
ACM
106views Algorithms» more  SODA 1998»
13 years 9 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