Heuristics for k-domination models of facility location problems in street networks
Abstract
We present new greedy and beam search heuristic methods to find small-size -dominating sets in graphs. The methods are inspired by a new problem formulation which explicitly highlights a certain structure of the problem. An empirical evaluation of the new methods is done with respect to two existing methods, using instances of graphs corresponding to street networks. The k-domination problem with respect to this class of graphs can be used to model real-world facility location problem scenarios. For the classic minimum dominating set (-domination) problem, all except one methods perform similarly, which is due to their equivalence in this particular case. However, for the k-domination problem with k>1, the new methods outperform the benchmark methods, and the performance gain is more significant for larger values of k.
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@article{arxiv.2111.07885,
title = {Heuristics for k-domination models of facility location problems in street networks},
author = {Padraig Corcoran and Andrei Gagarin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.07885},
year = {2021}
}