Improved algorithms to network p-center location problems

  • Authors:
  • Binay Bhattacharya;Qiaosheng Shi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

In this paper we show that a p(=2)-center location problem in general networks can be transformed to the well-known Klee@?s measure problem (Overmars and Yap, 1991) [15]. This results in a significantly improved algorithm for the continuous case with running time O(m^pn^p^/^22^l^o^g^^^@?^nlogn) for p=3, where n is the number of vertices, m is the number of edges, and log^@?n denotes the iterated logarithm of n (Cormen et al., 2001) [10]. For p=2, the running time of the improved algorithm is O(m^2nlog^2n). The previous best result for the problem is O(m^pn^p@a(n)logn) where @a(n) is the inverse Ackermann function (Tamir, 1988) [17]. When the underlying network is a partial k-tree (k fixed), we exploit the geometry inherent in the problem and propose a two-level tree decomposition data structure which can be used to efficiently solve discrete p-center problems for small values of p.