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Approximation algorithms for the Transportation Problem with Market Choice and related models

Data Structures and Algorithms 2016-08-23 v1

Abstract

Given facilities with capacities and clients with penalties and demands, the transportation problem with market choice consists in finding the minimum-cost way to partition the clients into unserved clients, paying the penalties, and into served clients, paying the transportation cost to serve them. We give polynomial-time reductions from this problem and variants to the (un)capacitated facility location problem, directly yielding approximation algorithms, two with constant factors in the metric case, one with a logarithmic factor in the general case.

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@article{arxiv.1410.1409,
  title  = {Approximation algorithms for the Transportation Problem with Market Choice and related models},
  author = {Karen Aardal and Pierre Le Bodic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.1409},
  year   = {2016}
}
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