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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2009.2321
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-23212
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2009/2321/
Huang, Chien-Chung ;
Svitkina, Zoya
Donation Center Location Problem
Abstract
We introduce and study the {\em donation center location} problem, which
has an additional application in network
testing and may also be of independent interest as a general graph-theoreticproblem.Given a set of agents and a set of centers, where agents have preferences over centers and centers have capacities,
the goal is to open a subset of centers and to assign a maximum-sized subset of agents to their most-preferred
open centers, while respecting the capacity constraints.
We prove that in general, the problem
is hard to approximate within $n^{1/2-\epsilon}$ for any $\epsilon>0$.
In view of this, we investigate two special cases.
In one, every agent has a bounded number of centers on her preference list,
and in the other, all preferences are induced by a line-metric.
We present constant-factor approximation algorithms
for the former and exact polynomial-time algorithms for the latter.
Of particular interest among our techniques are an analysis of the greedy
algorithm for a variant of the maximum coverage problem called\emph{frugal coverage}, the use of maximum matching subroutine with subsequent
modification, analyzed using a counting argument, and a reduction to the independent set problem
on \emph{terminal intersection graphs}, which we show to be
a subclass of trapezoid graphs.
BibTeX - Entry
@InProceedings{huang_et_al:LIPIcs:2009:2321,
author = {Chien-Chung Huang and Zoya Svitkina},
title = {{Donation Center Location Problem}},
booktitle = {IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science},
pages = {227--238},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-939897-13-2},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2009},
volume = {4},
editor = {Ravi Kannan and K. Narayan Kumar},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2009/2321},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-23212},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2009.2321},
annote = {Keywords: Approximation Algorithms, Facility Location, Matching with Preferences}
}
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Approximation Algorithms, Facility Location, Matching with Preferences |
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IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science |
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2009 |
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14.12.2009 |