TY - JOUR
T1 - Collection depots facility location problems in trees
AU - Benkoczi, Robert
AU - Bhattacharya, Binay
AU - Tamir, Arie
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( 31830013 ), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation ( 2019M662498 ), and the National Key Research and Development Program of China ( 2019YFA0905503 ). Lai Wang and Fenli Min, from Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, were greatly thanked for the field sampling assistance and the data analyses.
PY - 2009/1
Y1 - 2009/1
N2 - We consider a generalization of the median and center facility location problem called the collection depots facility location (CDFL) problem. We are given a set of client locations and a set of collection depots and we are required to find the placement for a certain number of facilities, so that the cost of dispatching a vehicle from a facility, to a client, to a collection depot, and back, is optimized for all clients. The CDFL center problem minimizes the cost of the most expensive vehicle tour among all clients, and the CDFL median problem minimizes the sum of the tour costs for all clients. We provide the first polynomial time algorithms to solve the 1 and k median problems in trees with time complexities O(n log n) and O(kn3), respectively, where n is the number of vertices in the tree. In contrast, a restricted version of the/(-median problem, where clients are given lists of allowed collection depots, is NP-complete even for star graphs. We also give an optimal linear time algorithm to solve the discrete and continuous weighted 1-center problem, improving on the O(n log n) result of Tamir and Halman [Discrete Optimization 2(2005), 168-184].
AB - We consider a generalization of the median and center facility location problem called the collection depots facility location (CDFL) problem. We are given a set of client locations and a set of collection depots and we are required to find the placement for a certain number of facilities, so that the cost of dispatching a vehicle from a facility, to a client, to a collection depot, and back, is optimized for all clients. The CDFL center problem minimizes the cost of the most expensive vehicle tour among all clients, and the CDFL median problem minimizes the sum of the tour costs for all clients. We provide the first polynomial time algorithms to solve the 1 and k median problems in trees with time complexities O(n log n) and O(kn3), respectively, where n is the number of vertices in the tree. In contrast, a restricted version of the/(-median problem, where clients are given lists of allowed collection depots, is NP-complete even for star graphs. We also give an optimal linear time algorithm to solve the discrete and continuous weighted 1-center problem, improving on the O(n log n) result of Tamir and Halman [Discrete Optimization 2(2005), 168-184].
KW - Algorithms
KW - Collection depots problem-
KW - Dynamic programming
KW - Facility location
KW - Trees
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U2 - 10.1002/net.20258
DO - 10.1002/net.20258
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AN - SCOPUS:61349120657
SN - 0028-3045
VL - 53
SP - 50
EP - 62
JO - Networks
JF - Networks
IS - 1
ER -