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We consider the classic Facility Location problem on planar graphs (non-uniform, uncapacitated). Given an edge-weighted planar graph $G$, a set of clients $C\subseteq V(G)$, a set of facilities $F\subseteq V(G)$, and opening costs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk

In the load balancing problem, the input is an $n$-vertex bipartite graph $G = (C \cup S, E)$ and a positive weight for each client $c \in C$. The algorithm must assign each client $c \in C$ to an adjacent server $s \in S$. The load of a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Sepehr Assadi , Aaron Bernstein , Zachary Langley

We study Facility Location with Matching, a Facility Location problem where, given additional information about which pair of clients is compatible to be matched, we need to match as many clients as possible and assign each matched client…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Fateme Abbasi , Martin Böhm , Jarosław Byrka , Matin Mohammadi , Yongho Shin

Location Routing is a fundamental planning problem in logistics, in which strategic location decisions on the placement of facilities (depots, distribution centers, warehouses etc.) are taken based on accurate estimates of operational…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Felipe Carrasco Heine , Antonia Demleitner , Jannik Matuschke

We describe the first nearly linear-time approximation algorithms for explicitly given mixed packing/covering linear programs, and for (non-metric) fractional facility location. We also describe the first parallel algorithms requiring only…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Neal E. Young

We consider a natural extension to the metric uncapacitated Facility Location Problem (FLP) in which requests ask for different commodities out of a finite set $S$ of commodities. Ravi and Sinha (SODA'04) introduced the model as the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Jannik Castenow , Björn Feldkord , Till Knollmann , Manuel Malatyali , Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide

We study the allocation problem in the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model. This problem is a special case of $b$-matching, in which the input is a bipartite graph with capacities greater than $1$ in only one part of the bipartition.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Jakub Łącki , Slobodan Mitrović , Srikkanth Ramachandran , Wen-Horng Sheu

In this work we consider general facility location and social choice problems, in which sets of agents $\mathcal{A}$ and facilities $\mathcal{F}$ are located in a metric space, and our goal is to assign agents to facilities (as well as…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Elliot Anshelevich , Wennan Zhu

We consider Online Facility Location in the framework of learning-augmented online algorithms. In Online Facility Location (OFL), demands arrive one-by-one in a metric space and must be (irrevocably) assigned to an open facility upon…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Dimitris Fotakis , Evangelia Gergatsouli , Themis Gouleakis , Nikolas Patris , Thanos Tolias

We study a competitive facility location problem (CFLP), where two firms sequentially open new facilities within their budgets, in order to maximize their market shares of demand that follows a probabilistic choice model. This process is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Mingyao Qi , Ruiwei Jiang , Siqian Shen

The Uncapacitated Facility Location (UFL) problem is one of the most fundamental clustering problems: Given a set of clients $C$ and a set of facilities $F$ in a metric space $(C \cup F, dist)$ with facility costs $open : F \to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Fabrizio Grandoni , Euiwoong Lee , Chris Schwiegelshohn

This paper presents the design and analysis of parallel approximation algorithms for facility-location problems, including $\NC$ and $\RNC$ algorithms for (metric) facility location, $k$-center, $k$-median, and $k$-means. These problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-06-11 Guy E. Blelloch , Kanat Tangwongsan

In this paper, we provide a rigorous theoretical investigation of an online learning version of the Facility Location problem which is motivated by emerging problems in real-world applications. In our formulation, we are given a set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Stephen Pasteris , Ting He , Fabio Vitale , Shiqiang Wang , Mark Herbster

In the facility location problem, the task is to place one or more facilities so as to minimize the sum of the agent costs for accessing their nearest facility. Heretofore, in the strategic version, agent locations have been assumed to be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Richard Cole , Pranav Jangir

We consider the $k$-Median problem on planar graphs: given an edge-weighted planar graph $G$, a set of clients $C \subseteq V(G)$, a set of facilities $F \subseteq V(G)$, and an integer parameter $k$, the task is to find a set of at most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk

We consider the {\em mobile facility location} (\mfl) problem. We are given a set of facilities and clients located in a common metric space. The goal is to move each facility from its initial location to a destination and assign each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-21 Sara Ahmadian , Zachary Friggstad , Chaitanya Swamy

We propose a new scalable algorithm for facility location. Facility location is a classic problem, where the goal is to select a subset of facilities to open, from a set of candidate facilities F , in order to serve a set of clients C. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Kiran Garimella , Gianmarco De Francisci Morales , Aristides Gionis , Mauro Sozio

We introduce a problem that is a common generalization of the uncapacitated facility location and minimum latency (ML) problems, where facilities need to be opened to serve clients and also need to be sequentially activated before they can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-09-14 Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Chaitanya Swamy

In Euclidean Uniform Facility Location (UFL), the input is a set of clients in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and the goal is to place facilities to serve them, so as to minimize the total cost of opening facilities plus connecting the clients. We study…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Artur Czumaj , Arnold Filtser , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Pavel Veselý , Mingwei Yang

We consider the {\em lower-bounded facility location} (\lbfl) problem (also sometimes called {\em load-balanced facility location}), which is a generalization of {\em uncapacitated facility location} (\ufl), where each open facility is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-31 Sara Ahmadian , Chaitanya Swamy