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The uncapacitated facility location has always been an important problem due to its connection to operational research and infrastructure planning. Byrka obtained an algorithm that is parametrized by $\gamma$ and proved that it is optimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Haotian Jiang

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

We give a constant-factor approximation algorithm for the asymmetric traveling salesman problem (ATSP). Our approximation guarantee is analyzed with respect to the standard LP relaxation, and thus our result confirms the conjectured…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Ola Svensson , Jakub Tarnawski , László A. Végh

This paper studies a practical regional demand continuous multifacility location problems whose main goal is to locate a given number of services and entry points in each region to distribute certain products to the users at minimum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Víctor Blanco , Ricardo Gázquez , Marina Leal

In recent years, the capacitated center problems have attracted a lot of research interest. Given a set of vertices $V$, we want to find a subset of vertices $S$, called centers, such that the maximum cluster radius is minimized. Moreover,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Hu Ding , Lunjia Hu , Lingxiao Huang , Jian Li

The Hospital Residents setting models important problems like school choice, assignment of undergraduate students to degree programs, among many others. In this setting, fixed quotas are associated with the programs that limit the number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Haricharan Balasundaram , Girija Limaye , Meghana Nasre , Abhinav Raja

This paper presents a novel approach to solve capacitated facility location problems (FLP) that encompass various resource allocation problems. FLPs are a class of NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems, involving optimal placement and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Alisina Bayati , Dhananjay Tiwari , Srinivasa Salapaka

This paper considers facility location problems in which a firm entering a market seeks to open facilities on a subset of candidate locations so as to maximize its expected market share, assuming that customers choose the available…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-19 Robin Legault , Emma Frejinger

We study the Ordered k-Median problem, in which the solution is evaluated by first sorting the client connection costs and then multiplying them with a predefined non-increasing weight vector (higher connection costs are taken with larger…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Jarosław Byrka , Krzysztof Sornat , Joachim Spoerhase

In this paper we consider two special cases of the "cover-by-pairs" optimization problem that arise when we need to place facilities so that each customer is served by two facilities that reach it by disjoint shortest paths. These problems…

The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to extend the area of applications of tropical optimization by solving new constrained location problems, and second, to offer new closed-form solutions to general problems that are of interest to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Nikolai Krivulin

Ensuring fairness in machine learning algorithms is a challenging and essential task. We consider the problem of clustering a set of points while satisfying fairness constraints. While there have been several attempts to capture group…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Debajyoti Kar , Mert Kosan , Debmalya Mandal , Sourav Medya , Arlei Silva , Palash Dey , Swagato Sanyal

We study the facility location problems where agents are located on a real line and divided into groups based on criteria such as ethnicity or age. Our aim is to design mechanisms to locate a facility to approximately minimize the costs of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Houyu Zhou , Minming Li , Hau Chan

Algorithms with predictions have attracted much attention in the last years across various domains, including variants of facility location, as a way to surpass traditional worst-case analyses. We study the $k$-facility location mechanism…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Zohar Barak , Anupam Gupta , Inbal Talgam-Cohen

Stable matching is a fundamental area with many practical applications, such as centralised clearinghouses for school choice or job markets. Recent work has introduced the paradigm of near-feasibility in capacitated matching settings, where…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Frederik Glitzner

We consider $k$-Facility Location games, where $n$ strategic agents report their locations on the real line, and a mechanism maps them to $k\ge 2$ facilities. Each agent seeks to minimize her distance to the nearest facility. We are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Dimitris Fotakis , Panagiotis Patsilinakos

In the uncapacitated facility location problem, given a graph, a set of demands and opening costs, it is required to find a set of facilities R, so as to minimize the sum of the cost of opening the facilities in R and the cost of assigning…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Shiri Chechik , David Peleg

We introduce an algorithm design technique for a class of combinatorial optimization problems with concave costs. This technique yields a strongly polynomial primal-dual algorithm for a concave cost problem whenever such an algorithm exists…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-02-14 Thomas L. Magnanti , Dan Stratila

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