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The Maximal Covering Location Problem (MCLP) is a classical location problem where a company maximizes the demand covered by placing a given number of facilities, and each demand node is covered if the closest facility is within a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Concepción Domínguez , Ricardo Gázquez , Juan Miguel Morales , Salvador Pineda

We study local search algorithms for metric instances of facility location problems: the uncapacitated facility location problem (UFL), as well as uncapacitated versions of the $k$-median, $k$-center and $k$-means problems. All these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-09-16 Anupam Gupta , Kanat Tangwongsan

Neural networks, particularly message-passing neural networks (MPNNs), are increasingly used as heuristics for hard combinatorial optimization problems. Yet many learning-based methods rely on supervision, reinforcement learning, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Chendi Qian , Christopher Morris , Stefanie Jegelka , Christian Sohler

Facility location is a prominent optimization problem that has inspired a large quantity of both theoretical and practical studies in combinatorial optimization. Although the problem has been investigated under various settings reflecting…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Kangsan Kim , Yongho Shin , Hyung-Chan An

Effective and efficient task planning is essential for mobile robots, especially in applications like warehouse retrieval and environmental monitoring. These tasks often involve selecting one location from each of several target clusters,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jiaqi Cheng , Mingfeng Fan , Xuefeng Zhang , Jingsong Liang , Yuhong Cao , Guohua Wu , Guillaume Adrien Sartoretti

While federated learning (FL) is a widely popular distributed machine learning (ML) strategy that protects data privacy, time-varying wireless network parameters and heterogeneous configurations of the wireless devices pose significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Ferdous Pervej , Minseok Choi , Andreas F. Molisch

In this paper, we investigate the Mechanism Design aspects of the $m$-Capacitated Facility Location Problem ($m$-CFLP) on a line. We focus on two frameworks. In the first framework, the number of facilities is arbitrary, all facilities have…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Gennaro Auricchio , Zihe Wang , Jie Zhang

We introduce a natural online allocation problem that connects several of the most fundamental problems in online optimization. Let $M$ be an $n$-point metric space. Consider a resource that can be allocated in arbitrary fractions to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Nikhil Bansal , Christian Coester

In this paper we study three previously unstudied variants of the online Facility Location problem, considering an intrinsic scenario when the clients and facilities are not only allowed to arrive to the system, but they can also depart at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Marek Cygan , Artur Czumaj , Marcin Mucha , Piotr Sankowski

We study the Online Traveling Salesperson Problem (OLTSP) with predictions. In OLTSP, a sequence of initially unknown requests arrive over time at points (locations) of a metric space. The goal is, starting from a particular point of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Evripidis Bampis , Bruno Escoffier , Themis Gouleakis , Niklas Hahn , Kostas Lakis , Golnoosh Shahkarami , Michalis Xefteris

One of the key issues in mobile communication is to find the current location of mobile terminal (MT) to deliver the services, which is called as location management (LM). Increasing users and diverse services demand for a high-quality…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Vijendra Singh Bhadauria , Sanjeev Sharma , Ravindra Patel

Oblivious dimension reduction, \`{a} la the Johnson-Lindenstrauss (JL) Lemma, is a fundamental approach for processing high-dimensional data. We study this approach for Uniform Facility Location (UFL) on a Euclidean input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Lingxiao Huang , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Di Yue

In this paper we study the facility location problem in the online with recourse and dynamic algorithm models. In the online with recourse model, clients arrive one by one and our algorithm needs to maintain good solutions at all time steps…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Xiangyu Guo , Janardhan Kulkarni , Shi Li , Jiayi Xian

In the classical facility location problem we consider a graph $G$ with fixed weights on the edges of $G$. The goal is then to find an optimal positioning for a set of facilities on the graph with respect to some objective function. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Boaz Ben-Moshe , Michael Elkin , Lee-Ad Gottlieb , Eran Omri

We study a location-routing problem in the context of capacitated vehicle routing. The input is a set of demand locations in a metric space and a fleet of k vehicles each of capacity Q. The objective is to locate k depots, one for each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-03-08 Inge Li Goertz , Viswanath Nagarajan

We consider the online $k$-taxi problem, a generalization of the $k$-server problem, in which $k$ taxis serve a sequence of requests in a metric space. A request consists of two points $s$ and $t$, representing a passenger that wants to be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Christian Coester , Elias Koutsoupias

We study a version of the metric facility location problem (or, equivalently, variants of the committee selection problem) in which we must choose $k$ facilities in an arbitrary metric space to serve some set of clients $C$. We consider…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Yue Han , Elliot Anshelevich

We consider the facility location problem in the one-dimensional setting where each facility can serve a limited number of agents from the algorithmic and mechanism design perspectives. From the algorithmic perspective, we prove that the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Haris Aziz , Hau Chan , Barton E. Lee , Bo Li , Toby Walsh

In the streaming model, the order of the stream can significantly affect the difficulty of a problem. A $t$-semirandom stream was introduced as an interpolation between random-order ($t=1$) and adversarial-order ($t=n$) streams where an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Harry Lang

We present a randomized distributed approximation algorithm for the metric uncapacitated facility location problem. The algorithm is executed on a bipartite graph in the Congest model yielding a (1.861 + epsilon) approximation factor, where…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-05-09 Patrick Briest , Bastian Degener , Barbara Kempkes , Peter Kling , Peter Pietrzyk