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Approximation algorithms for Capacitated Facility Location Problem with Penalties

2014/08/21 by Neelima Gupta, Shubham Gupta, Gupta, Neelima +1
Business, Management and Accounting · Computer Science · Engineering · #Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization #Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Facility Location and Emergency Management #Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods #cs.DS

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1408.4944

openalex publication_date 2014/08/21 · arxiv created 2014/09/12 · arxiv updated 2014/09/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

In this paper, we address the problem of capacitated facility location problem with penalties (CapFLPP) paid per unit of unserved demand. In case of uncapacitated FLP with penalties demands of a client are either entirely met or are entirely rejected and penalty is paid. In the uncapacitated case, there is no reason to serve a client partially. Whereas, in case of CapFLPP, it may be beneficial to serve a client partially instead of not serving at all and, pay the penalty for the unmet demand. Charikar et. al. \citecharikar2001algorithms, Jain et. al. \citejain2003greedy and Xu- Xu \citexu2009improved gave 3, 2 and 1.8526 approximation, respectively, for the uncapacitated case . We present (5.83 + ε) factor for the case of uniform capacities and (8.532 + ε) factor for non-uniform capacities.

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