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具有客户延迟的设施选址:基于线性规划的最小延迟问题求解技术

Facility Location with Client Latencies: Linear-Programming based Techniques for Minimum-Latency Problems

Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Chaitanya Swamy

摘要:

我们介绍了一个问题,这是一个共同的概括的无容量的设施位置和最小延迟(ML)的问题,设施需要打开服务客户端,也需要被顺序激活之前,他们可以提供服务。形式上,我们给出了一个具有设施开放成本{f_i}的n个设施的集合\F,一个m个客户的集合,以及指定将客户j分配给设施i的成本的连接成本{ c_{ij} },表示仓库的根结点r,以及\F \cup{r}上的时间度量d。我们的目标是打开一个子集F的设施,找到一个路径P开始在r和跨越F,以激活开放的设施,并连接每个客户端j到一个设施\in F,以最小化\sum_{i\in F} f_i + \sum_{clients j}(c_{ϕ(j),j} +t_j),其中t_j是所采取的时间沿路径P到达c_{ϕ(j),j}(j)。我们称之为最小延迟无容量设施定位(MLUFL)问题。我们的主要结果是O(\log n \max{\log n,\log m})-近似MLUFL。我们还表明,在这种近似保证的任何改进,意味着改进组斯坦纳树的(当前最佳)近似因子。我们获得了两个自然的特殊情况下的问题的常数近似:(a)相关MLUFL(度量连接成本是时间度量的标量倍数);(b)度量均匀MLUFL(度量连接成本,不成形的时间度量)。我们的基于LP的方法是通用的,并且很容易适应于在各种更一般的设置中产生MLUFL的近似保证,例如(i)当客户端的延迟成本是其所连接的设施所面临的延迟的函数时;以及(ii)k-路线版本,其中k辆车被并行路由以激活开放设施。我们对MLUFL的基于LP的理解也提供了对ML的一些基于LP的见解,我们认为这是获得ML改进的一个有希望的方向。

英文摘要:

We introduce a problem that is a common generalization of the uncapacitated facility location and minimum latency (ML) problems, where facilities need to be opened to serve clients and also need to be sequentially activated before they can provide service. Formally, we are given a set \F of n facilities with facility-opening costs {f_i}, a set of m clients, and connection costs {c_{ij}} specifying the cost of assigning a client j to a facility i, a root node r denoting the depot, and a time metric d on \F\cup{r}. Our goal is to open a subset F of facilities, find a path P starting at r and spanning F to activate the open facilities, and connect each client j to a facility ϕ(j)\in F, so as to minimize \sum_{i\in F}f_i +\sum_{clients j}(c_{ϕ(j),j}+t_j), where t_j is the time taken to reach ϕ(j) along path P. We call this the minimum latency uncapacitated facility location (MLUFL) problem. Our main result is an O(\log n\max{\log n,\log m})-approximation for MLUFL. We also show that any improvement in this approximation guarantee, implies an improvement in the (current-best) approximation factor for group Steiner tree. We obtain constant approximations for two natural special cases of the problem: (a) related MLUFL (metric connection costs that are a scalar multiple of the time metric); (b) metric uniform MLUFL (metric connection costs, unform time-metric). Our LP-based methods are versatile and easily adapted to yield approximation guarantees for MLUFL in various more general settings, such as (i) when the latency-cost of a client is a function of the delay faced by the facility to which it is connected; and (ii) the k-route version, where k vehicles are routed in parallel to activate the open facilities. Our LP-based understanding of MLUFL also offers some LP-based insights into ML, which we believe is a promising direction for obtaining improvements for ML.

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