Greedy Facility Location Algorithms Analyzed using Dual Fitting with Factor-Revealing LP
Data Structures and Algorithms
2007-05-23 v1 Computer Science and Game Theory
Abstract
In this paper, we will formalize the method of dual fitting and the idea of factor-revealing LP. This combination is used to design and analyze two greedy algorithms for the metric uncapacitated facility location problem. Their approximation factors are 1.861 and 1.61, with running times of O(mlog m) and O(n^3), respectively, where n is the total number of vertices and m is the number of edges in the underlying complete bipartite graph between cities and facilities. The algorithms are used to improve recent results for several variants of the problem.
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@article{arxiv.cs/0207028,
title = {Greedy Facility Location Algorithms Analyzed using Dual Fitting with Factor-Revealing LP},
author = {Kamal Jain and Mohammad Mahdian and Evangelos Markakis and Amin Saberi and Vijay V. Vazirani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0207028},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
28 pages, 2 figures, 4 tables, abstract appeared in STOC 2002 Montreal