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arXiv 2009.01446cs.DScs.GT
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在线设施分配问题的新结果和界

New Results and Bounds on Online Facility Assignment Problem

Saad Al Muttakee, Abu Reyan Ahmed, Md. Saidur Rahman

摘要:

考虑一个在线设施分配问题,其中一组设施$F = \{ f_1, f_2, f_3, \cdots, f_{|F|} \}$的相等容量$l$位于一个度量空间和客户到达一个接一个在该空间上的在线方式。在新客户$c_{i+1}$到达之前,我们将客户$c_i$分配给设施$f_j$。此分配的成本是$c_i$和$f_j$之间的距离。这个问题的目标是最小化所有分配成本之和。最近Ahmed et al.(TCS,806,pp. 455-467,2020)研究了设施位于一条线上的问题,并计算了“贪婪算法”的竞争比,该算法将客户分配给最近的可用设施。他们计算了名为“最优填充算法”的算法的竞争率,该算法考虑了所有先前客户的最优分配来分配新客户。他们还研究了设施位于连通无权图上的问题。本文首先考虑$F$位于一个大小为$r \times c$的连通无权格图$G$的顶点上,并且顾客在$G$的顶点上逐个到达.证明了贪婪算法具有竞争比$r \times c + r + c$,最优填充算法具有竞争比$O(r \times c)$ .我们随后证明了算法最优填充的竞争比是$2|F|$的任何图。我们的界是紧的,比以前的结果更好。我们还考虑了设施在平面上的任意分布,并提供了一个算法的场景。我们还提供了一个算法,具有竞争比$(2n-1)$。最后,我们考虑了一个直线度量空间,并表明没有任何算法的在线设施分配问题的竞争比小于$9.001$。

英文摘要:

Consider an online facility assignment problem where a set of facilities $F = \{ f_1, f_2, f_3, \cdots, f_{|F|} \}$ of equal capacity $l$ is situated on a metric space and customers arrive one by one in an online manner on that space. We assign a customer $c_i$ to a facility $f_j$ before a new customer $c_{i+1}$ arrives. The cost of this assignment is the distance between $c_i$ and $f_j$. The objective of this problem is to minimize the sum of all assignment costs. Recently Ahmed et al. (TCS, 806, pp. 455-467, 2020) studied the problem where the facilities are situated on a line and computed competitive ratio of "Algorithm Greedy" which assigns the customer to the nearest available facility. They computed competitive ratio of algorithm named "Algorithm Optimal-Fill" which assigns the new customer considering optimal assignment of all previous customers. They also studied the problem where the facilities are situated on a connected unweighted graph. In this paper we first consider that $F$ is situated on the vertices of a connected unweighted grid graph $G$ of size $r \times c$ and customers arrive one by one having positions on the vertices of $G$. We show that Algorithm Greedy has competitive ratio $r \times c + r + c$ and Algorithm Optimal-Fill has competitive ratio $O(r \times c)$. We later show that the competitive ratio of Algorithm Optimal-Fill is $2|F|$ for any arbitrary graph. Our bound is tight and better than the previous result. We also consider the facilities are distributed arbitrarily on a plane and provide an algorithm for the scenario. We also provide an algorithm that has competitive ratio $(2n-1)$. Finally, we consider a straight line metric space and show that no algorithm for the online facility assignment problem has competitive ratio less than $9.001$.

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