A new template for solving p-median problems for trees in sub-quadratic time

  • Authors:
  • Robert Benkoczi;Binay Bhattacharya

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computing, Queen’s University Kingston, ON, Canada;School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

  • Venue:
  • ESA'05 Proceedings of the 13th annual European conference on Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We propose an O(n logp+2n) algorithm for solving the well-known p-Median problem for trees. Our analysis relies on the fact that p is considered constant (in practice, very often p n). This is the first result in almost 25 years that proposes a new algorithm for solving this problem, opening up several new avenues for research.