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In this paper, we study a facility location problem within a competitive market context, where customer demand is predicted by a random utility choice model. Unlike prior research, which primarily focuses on simple constraints such as a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Hoang Giang Pham , Tien Thanh Dam , Ngan Ha Duong , Tien Mai , Minh Hoang Ha

In this note, we consider the capacitated facility location problem when the transportation costs of the instance satisfy the Monge property. We show that a straightforward dynamic program finds the optimal solution when the demands are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Alice Paul , David P. Williamson

In Facility Location problems there are agents that should be connected to facilities and locations where facilities may be opened so that agents can connect to them. We depart from Uncapacitated Facility Location and by assuming that the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Thanasis Lianeas , Marios Mertzanidis , Aikaterini Nikolidaki

Logistics network is expected that opened facilities work continuously for a long time horizon without any failure, but in real world problems, facilities may face disruptions. This paper studies a reliable joint inventory location problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Elham Taghizadeh , Mostafa Abedzadeh , Mostafa Setak

In the Submodular Facility Location problem (SFL) we are given a collection of $n$ clients and $m$ facilities in a metric space. A feasible solution consists of an assignment of each client to some facility. For each client, one has to pay…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Fateme Abbasi , Marek Adamczyk , Miguel Bosch-Calvo , Jarosław Byrka , Fabrizio Grandoni , Krzysztof Sornat , Antoine Tinguely

The $k$-Facility Location problem is a generalization of the classical problems $k$-Median and Facility Location. The goal is to select a subset of at most $k$ facilities that minimizes the total cost of opened facilities and established…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Jarosław Byrka , Krzysztof Fleszar , Bartosz Rybicki , Joachim Spoerhase

We study the competitive facility location problem, where a firm aims to establish new facilities in a market already occupied by competitors. In this problem, customer behavior is crucial for making optimal location decisions. We explore a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Ba Luat Le , Tien Mai , Thuy Anh Ta , Minh Hoang Ha , Duc Minh Vu

A new variant of the classic capacitated facility location problem, which considers incompatibilities between customers, has recently been introduced in the literature. This problem captures the situation where given pairs of customers…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Ida Gjergji , Lucas Kletzander , Nysret Musliu , Andrea Schaerf

Consider a storage area where arriving items are stored temporarily in bounded capacity stacks until their departure. We look into the problem of deciding where to put an arriving item with the objective of minimizing the maximum number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Martin Olsen , Allan Gross

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

Facility location problems are captivating both from theoretical and practical point of view. In this paper, we study some fundamental facility location problems from the space-efficient perspective. Here the input is considered to be given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-22 Binay K. Bhattacharya , Minati De , Subhas C. Nandy , Sasanka Roy

In this work, we give a unifying view of locality in four settings: distributed algorithms, sequential greedy algorithms, dynamic algorithms, and online algorithms. We introduce a new model of computing, called the online-LOCAL model: the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Amirreza Akbari , Navid Eslami , Henrik Lievonen , Darya Melnyk , Joona Särkijärvi , Jukka Suomela

We study the point location problem in incremental (possibly disconnected) planar subdivisions, that is, dynamic subdivisions allowing insertions of edges and vertices only. Specifically, we present an $O(n\log n)$-space data structure for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Eunjin Oh

The recent large scale availability of mobility data, which captures individual mobility patterns, poses novel operational problems that are exciting and challenging. Motivated by this, we introduce and study a variant of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Ozan Candogan , Yiding Feng

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

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

Dynamic facility location problems aim at placing one or more valuable resources over a planning horizon to meet customer demand. Existing literature commonly assumes that customer demand quantities are defined independently for each time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Warley Almeida Silva , Margarida Carvalho , Sanjay Dominik Jena

In this paper, we study the set cover problem in the fully dynamic model. In this model, the set of active elements, i.e., those that must be covered at any given time, can change due to element arrivals and departures. The goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Anupam Gupta , Ravishankar Krishnaswamy , Amit Kumar , Debmalya Panigrahi

We study the online facility assignment problem on regular polygons, where all sides are of equal length. The influence of specific geometric settings has remained mostly unexplored, even though classical online facility assignment problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Sumaiya Malik , Reyan Ahmed , Md. Manzurul Hasan

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