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度量无容量约束设施选址问题的最优双因子近似算法

An optimal bifactor approximation algorithm for the metric uncapacitated facility location problem

Jaroslaw Byrka, Karen Aardal

摘要:

本文对度量无容量约束设施选址问题(UFL)给出了一个1.5-近似算法,改进了Mahdian,Ye和Zhang提出的1.52-近似算法.注意,Guha和Khuller的可逼近性下限是1.463。一个算法是一个{ \em($λ_f$,$λ_c$)-近似算法},如果它产生的解决方案的总成本最多为$λ_f \cdot F^* + λ_c \cdot C^*$,其中$F^*$和$C^*$是最优解决方案的设施和连接成本。我们的新算法是对Chudak和Shmoys的$(1+2/e)$ -近似算法的改进,是求解UFL问题的(1.6774,1.3738)-近似算法,并且是第一个触及Jain,Mahdian和Saberi建立的$(γ_f, 1+2e^{-γ_f})$可逼近极限曲线的算法.因此,我们得到的第一个最佳的近似算法的连接成本占主导地位的情况下。当与Jain等人提出的(1.11,1.7764)-近似算法结合时,后来由Mahdian等人分析,我们获得了度量UFL问题的总体近似保证为1.5。我们还描述了如何使用我们的算法,以提高近似比的3级版本的UFL。

英文摘要:

We obtain a 1.5-approximation algorithm for the metric uncapacitated facility location problem (UFL), which improves on the previously best known 1.52-approximation algorithm by Mahdian, Ye and Zhang. Note, that the approximability lower bound by Guha and Khuller is 1.463. An algorithm is a {\em ($λ_f$,$λ_c$)-approximation algorithm} if the solution it produces has total cost at most $λ_f \cdot F^* + λ_c \cdot C^*$, where $F^*$ and $C^*$ are the facility and the connection cost of an optimal solution. Our new algorithm, which is a modification of the $(1+2/e)$-approximation algorithm of Chudak and Shmoys, is a (1.6774,1.3738)-approximation algorithm for the UFL problem and is the first one that touches the approximability limit curve $(γ_f, 1+2e^{-γ_f})$ established by Jain, Mahdian and Saberi. As a consequence, we obtain the first optimal approximation algorithm for instances dominated by connection costs. When combined with a (1.11,1.7764)-approximation algorithm proposed by Jain et al., and later analyzed by Mahdian et al., we obtain the overall approximation guarantee of 1.5 for the metric UFL problem. We also describe how to use our algorithm to improve the approximation ratio for the 3-level version of UFL.

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