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An improved approximation algorithm for uncapacitated facility location problem with penalties

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Abstract

In this paper, we consider an interesting variant of the facility location problem called uncapacitated facility location problem with penalties (UFLWP for short) in which each client is either assigned to an opened facility or rejected by paying a penalty. We present a 1.8526-approximation algorithm for the UFLWP problem. Our algorithm first enhances the primal-dual method for the UFLWP problem [3] so that outliers can be recognized more efficiently, and then applies a local search heuristic to further reduce the cost for serving those non-rejected clients.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)644-653
Number of pages10
JournalLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume3595
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005
Event11th Annual International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics, COCOON 2005 - Kunming, China
Duration: Aug 16 2005Aug 29 2005

Keywords

  • Algorithms
  • Approximation Algorithms
  • Facility Location Problem
  • Outliers

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