Approximation algorithms for the transportation problem with market choice and related models

Journal Article (2014)
Author(s)

K.I. Aardal (TU Delft - Discrete Mathematics and Optimization, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI))

Pierre Le Bodic (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Research Group
Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2014.09.008
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Publication Year
2014
Language
English
Research Group
Discrete Mathematics and Optimization
Issue number
8
Volume number
42
Pages (from-to)
549-552

Abstract

Given facilities with capacities and clients with penalties and demands, the transportation problem with market choice consists in finding the minimum-cost way to partition the clients into unserved clients, paying the penalties, and into served clients, paying the transportation cost to serve them.
We give polynomial-time reductions from this problem and variants to the (un)capacitated facility location problem, directly yielding approximation algorithms, two with constant factors in the metric case, one with a logarithmic factor in the general case.

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