A Randomized -Competitive Algorithm for the Online Connected Facility Location Problem

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作者
San Felice, Mario Cesar [1 ]
Williamson, David P. [2 ]
Lee, Orlando [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Estadual Campinas, Inst Comp, BR-13083852 Campinas, SP, Brazil
[2] Cornell Univ, Sch Operat Res & Informat Engn, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 巴西圣保罗研究基金会;
关键词
Online algorithms; Competitive analysis; Connected facility location; Steiner tree; Approximation algorithms; Randomized algorithms; APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS;
D O I
10.1007/s00453-016-0115-1
中图分类号
TP31 [计算机软件];
学科分类号
081202 ; 0835 ;
摘要
The Connected Facility Location (CFL) is a network design problem that arises from a combination of the Uncapacitated Facility Location (FL) and the Steiner Tree (ST) problems. The Online Connected Facility Location problem (OCFL) is an online version of the CFL. San Felice et al. (2014) presented a randomized algorithm for the OCFL and proved that it is -competitive, where n is the number of clients. That algorithm combines the sample-and-augment framework of Gupta, Kumar, Pal, and Roughgarden with previous algorithms for the Online Facility Location (OFL) and the Online Steiner Tree (OST) problems. In this paper we use a more precise analysis to show that the same algorithm is -competitive. Since there is a lower bound of for this problem, our result achieves the best possible competitive ratio, asymptotically.
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页码:1139 / 1157
页数:19
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