English

Representative families for matroid intersections, with applications to location, packing, and covering problems

Data Structures and Algorithms 2021-09-14 v4 Discrete Mathematics Optimization and Control

Abstract

We show algorithms for computing representative families for matroid intersections and use them in fixed-parameter algorithms for set packing, set covering, and facility location problems with multiple matroid constraints. We complement our tractability results by hardness results.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1806.11527,
  title  = {Representative families for matroid intersections, with applications to location, packing, and covering problems},
  author = {René van Bevern and Oxana Yu. Tsidulko and Philipp Zschoche},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.11527},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Restructuring (focus on representative families instead of facility location), slight running time improvements, algorithms factored out

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