An Algorithm for Facility Leasing

F. Meyer auf der Heide, P. Pietrzyk, P. Kling, in: Proceedings of the 19th International Colloquium on Structural Information & Communication Complexity (SIROCCO), 2012, pp. 61–72.

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Meyer auf der Heide, FriedhelmLibreCat; Pietrzyk, Peter; Kling, Peter
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We consider an online facility location problem where clients arrive over time and their demands have to be served by opening facilities and assigning the clients to opened facilities. When opening a facility we must choose one of K different lease types to use. A lease type k has a certain lease length lk. Opening a facility i using lease type k causes a cost of f k i and ensures that i is open for the next lk time steps. In addition to costs for opening facilities, we have to take connection costs ci j into account when assigning a client j to facility i. We develop and analyze the first online algorithm for this problem that has a time-independent competitive factor.This variant of the online facility location problem was introduced by Nagarajan and Williamson [7] and is strongly related to both the online facility problem by Meyerson [5] and the parking permit problem by Meyerson [6]. Nagarajan and Williamson gave a 3-approximation algorithm for the offline problem and an O(Klogn)-competitive algorithm for the online variant. Here, n denotes the total number of clients arriving over time. We extend their result by removing the dependency on n (and thereby on the time). In general, our algorithm is O(lmax log(lmax))-competitive. Here lmax denotes the maximum lease length. Moreover, we prove that it is O(log2(lmax))-competitive for many “natural” cases. Such cases include, for example, situations where the number of clients arriving in each time step does not vary too much, or is non-increasing, or is polynomially bounded in lmax.
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Meyer auf der Heide F, Pietrzyk P, Kling P. An Algorithm for Facility Leasing. In: Proceedings of the 19th International Colloquium on Structural Information & Communication Complexity (SIROCCO). LNCS. ; 2012:61-72. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31104-8_6
Meyer auf der Heide, F., Pietrzyk, P., & Kling, P. (2012). An Algorithm for Facility Leasing. In Proceedings of the 19th International Colloquium on Structural Information & Communication Complexity (SIROCCO) (pp. 61–72). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31104-8_6
@inproceedings{Meyer auf der Heide_Pietrzyk_Kling_2012, series={LNCS}, title={An Algorithm for Facility Leasing}, DOI={10.1007/978-3-642-31104-8_6}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Colloquium on Structural Information & Communication Complexity (SIROCCO)}, author={Meyer auf der Heide, Friedhelm and Pietrzyk, Peter and Kling, Peter}, year={2012}, pages={61–72}, collection={LNCS} }
Meyer auf der Heide, Friedhelm, Peter Pietrzyk, and Peter Kling. “An Algorithm for Facility Leasing.” In Proceedings of the 19th International Colloquium on Structural Information & Communication Complexity (SIROCCO), 61–72. LNCS, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31104-8_6.
F. Meyer auf der Heide, P. Pietrzyk, and P. Kling, “An Algorithm for Facility Leasing,” in Proceedings of the 19th International Colloquium on Structural Information & Communication Complexity (SIROCCO), 2012, pp. 61–72.
Meyer auf der Heide, Friedhelm, et al. “An Algorithm for Facility Leasing.” Proceedings of the 19th International Colloquium on Structural Information & Communication Complexity (SIROCCO), 2012, pp. 61–72, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31104-8_6.
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