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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

We study a variant of the competitive facility location problem, in which a company is to locate new facilities in a market where competitor's facilities already exist. We consider the scenario where only a limited number of possible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Yun Hui Lin , Qingyun Tian

We propose a novel feasible-path algorithm to solve the optimal power flow (OPF) problem for real-time use cases. The method augments the seminal work of Dommel and Tinney with second-order derivatives to work directly in the reduced space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 François Pacaud , Daniel Adrian Maldonado , Sungho Shin , Michel Schanen , Mihai Anitescu

Localization and tracking of a mobile node (MN) in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) scenarios, based on time of arrival (TOA) measurements, is considered in this work. To this end, we develop a constrained form of square root unscented Kalman…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-17 Siamak Yousefi , Xiao-Wen Chang , Benoit Champagne

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

Given a set $P$ of $n$ points and a set $S$ of $m$ disks in the plane, the disk coverage problem asks for a smallest subset of disks that together cover all points of $P$. The problem is NP-hard. In this paper, we consider a line-separable…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Gang Liu , Haitao Wang

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

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

An effective means for analyzing the impact of novel operating schemes on power systems is time domain simulation, for example for investigating optimization-based curtailment of renewables to alleviate voltage violations. Traditionally,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-27 Sandro Merkli , Alexander Domahidi , Juan Jerez , Manfred Morari , Roy S. Smith

A classic data structure problem is to preprocess a string T of length $n$ so that, given a query $q$, we can quickly find all substrings of T with Hamming distance at most $k$ from the query string. Variants of this problem have seen…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Jackson Bibbens , Levi Borevitz , Samuel McCauley

The facility location problem is an NP-hard optimization problem. Therefore, approximation algorithms are often used to solve large instances. Such algorithms often perform much better than worst-case analysis suggests. Therefore,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Stefan Klootwijk , Bodo Manthey

We consider an off-line optimisation problem where $k$ robots must service $n$ requests on a single line. A request $i$ has weight $w_i$ and takes place at time $t_i$ at location $d_i$ on the line. A robot can service a request and collect…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-01 A. Gkikas , T. Radzik

Given a set of pairwise disjoint polygonal obstacles in the plane, finding an obstacle-avoiding Euclidean shortest path between two points is a classical problem in computational geometry and has been studied extensively. The previous best…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Haitao Wang

In the online non-metric variant of the facility location problem, there is a given graph consisting of a set $F$ of facilities (each with a certain opening cost), a set $C$ of potential clients, and weighted connections between them. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Marcin Bienkowski , Björn Feldkord , Paweł Schmidt

We study the Multiple Cluster Scheduling problem and the Multiple Strip Packing problem. For both problems, there is no algorithm with approximation ratio better than $2$ unless $P = NP$. In this paper, we present an algorithm with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Klaus Jansen , Malin Rau

In this paper we present new algorithmic solutions for several constrained geometric server placement problems. We consider the problems of computing the 1-center and obnoxious 1-center of a set of line segments, constrained to lie on a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Mugurel Ionut Andreica , Eliana-Dina Tirsa

In this paper, we address the problem of minimizing a convex function f over a convex set, with the extra constraint that some variables must be integer. This problem, even when f is a piecewise linear function, is NP-hard. We study an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-05 Michel Baes , Timm Oertel , Christian Wagner , Robert Weismantel

Our aim is to develop dynamic data structures that support $k$-nearest neighbors ($k$-NN) queries for a set of $n$ point sites in the plane in $O(f(n) + k)$ time, where $f(n)$ is some polylogarithmic function of $n$. The key component is a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Sarita de Berg , Frank Staals

We study mechanism design with predictions for the obnoxious facility location problem. We present deterministic strategyproof mechanisms that display tradeoffs between robustness and consistency on segments, squares, circles and trees. All…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Gabriel Istrate , Cosmin Bonchis

This article presents a matheuristic algorithm for the single-source capacitated facility location problem (SSCFLP) and its variants: SSCFLP with K facilities (SSCKFLP), SSCFLP with contiguous service areas (CFLSAP), and SSCFLP with K…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yunfeng Kong