Approximation algorithms for the capacitated plant allocation problem

  • Authors:
  • Martine Labbé;E. F. Schmeichel;S.Louis Hakimi

  • Affiliations:
  • Service de Mathématiques de la Gestion, Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP 210/01, Boulevard du Triomphe, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192, USA;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

This paper considers the following optimization problem: Given positive integers n, B, @a"i and nondecreasing functions C"i(.) for i = 1, 2, ..., n, find z = (z"1, z"2...z"n) such that 0== B and @S"i"="1^nC"i(z"i) is the minimum possible. A fully polynomial approximation scheme for this problem is presented.