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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2017.48
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-82536
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2017/8253/
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Ito, Takehiro ; Kakimura, Naonori ; Kobayashi, Yusuke

Complexity of the Multi-Service Center Problem

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Abstract

The multi-service center problem is a variant of facility location problems. In the problem, we consider locating p facilities on a graph, each of which provides distinct service required by all vertices. Each vertex incurs the cost determined by the sum of the weighted distances to the p facilities. The aim of the problem is to minimize the maximum cost among all vertices. This problem is known to be NP-hard for general graphs, while it is solvable in polynomial time when p is a fixed constant. In this paper, we give sharp analyses for the complexity of the problem from the viewpoint of graph classes and weights on vertices. We first propose a polynomial-time algorithm for trees when p is a part of input. In contrast, we prove that the problem becomes strongly NP-hard even for cycles. We also show that when vertices are allowed to have negative weights, the problem becomes NP-hard for paths of only three vertices and strongly NP-hard for stars.

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@InProceedings{ito_et_al:LIPIcs:2017:8253,
  author =	{Takehiro Ito and Naonori Kakimura and Yusuke Kobayashi},
  title =	{{Complexity of the Multi-Service Center Problem}},
  booktitle =	{28th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2017)},
  pages =	{48:1--48:12},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-054-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{92},
  editor =	{Yoshio Okamoto and Takeshi Tokuyama},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2017/8253},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-82536},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2017.48},
  annote =	{Keywords: facility location, graph algorithm, multi-service location}
}

Keywords: facility location, graph algorithm, multi-service location
Collection: 28th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2017)
Issue Date: 2017
Date of publication: 07.12.2017

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