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中等大k值平面上k-圈覆盖问题的PTAS

PTAS for k-tour cover problem on the plane for moderately large values of k

Anna Adamaszek, Artur Czumaj, Andrzej Lingas

摘要:

设P是欧氏平面上的n个点的集合,O是平面上的原点。在k-tour cover问题(通常称为容量限制车辆路径问题)中,目标是最小化覆盖P中所有点的旅行的总长度,使得每个旅行在O开始和结束,并且从P开始覆盖最多k个点。还已知允许用于所有k值的常数因子近似算法以及甚至用于小k值的多项式时间近似方案(PTAS),即,k=O(log n / log log n).我们显着扩大了一个PTAS是可证明的k值的集合。我们提出了一个新的PTAS的所有值的k <= 2^{log^δn},其中δ= δ(ε)。本文证明的主要技术结果是将具有n个点集的k-巡回覆盖问题简化为一个小的问题实例集,每个问题实例集具有O((k/ε)^O(1))个点。

英文摘要:

Let P be a set of n points in the Euclidean plane and let O be the origin point in the plane. In the k-tour cover problem (called frequently the capacitated vehicle routing problem), the goal is to minimize the total length of tours that cover all points in P, such that each tour starts and ends in O and covers at most k points from P. The k-tour cover problem is known to be NP-hard. It is also known to admit constant factor approximation algorithms for all values of k and even a polynomial-time approximation scheme (PTAS) for small values of k, i.e., k=O(log n / log log n). We significantly enlarge the set of values of k for which a PTAS is provable. We present a new PTAS for all values of k <= 2^{log^δn}, where δ= δ(ε). The main technical result proved in the paper is a novel reduction of the k-tour cover problem with a set of n points to a small set of instances of the problem, each with O((k/ε)^O(1)) points.

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