CORR
2011
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2011
Springer
d Abstract) Sara Ahmadian∗ Chaitanya Swamy∗ We consider the lower-bounded facility location (LBFL) problem (also sometimes called load-balanced facility location), which is a ...
EUSFLAT
2009
13 years 11 months ago
2009
This paper handles the medical waste disposal facility location problem in Istanbul by using fuzzy TOPSIS (FETOPSIS) to select the adequate place between some candidate points that...
MICS
2010
14 years 9 days ago
2010
The conditional covering problem (CCP) aims to locate facilities on a graph, where the vertex set represents both the demand points and the potential facility locations. The proble...
JCO
1998
14 years 1 months ago
1998
Facility location problems have always been studied with the assumption that the edge lengths in the network are static and do not change over time. The underlyingnetwork could be ...
EOR
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
This paper addresses the finite size 1-center placement problem on a rectangular plane in the presence of barriers. Barriers are regions in which both facility location and trave...
DAM
2010
14 years 1 months ago
2010
In this paper we propose a new integer programming formulation for the multilevel facility location problem and a novel 3-approximation algorithm based on LP rounding. The linear ...
CORR
2010
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2010
Springer
We introduce a problem that is a common generalization of the uncapacitated facility location (UFL) and minimum latency (ML) problems, where facilities not only need to be opened ...
CCCG
2003
14 years 3 months ago
2003
Abstract Steph Durocher∗ and David Kirkpatrick† Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia Vancouver BC, Canada Given a set of client positions as input, f...
FOCS
2000
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2000
IEEE
In this paper, we give the first constant-approximations for a number of layered network design problems. We begin by modeling hierarchical caching, where caches are placed in la...
DCOSS
2005
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
2005
Springer
In this paper we address a well-known facility location problem (FLP) in a sensor network environment. The problem deals with finding the optimal way to provide service to a (poss...