The Capacitated K-Center Problem

  • Authors:
  • Samir Khuller;Yoram J. Sussmann

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

The capacitated K-center problem is a basic facility location problem, where we are asked to locate K facilities in a graph and to assign vertices to facilities, so as to minimize the maximum distance from a vertex to the facility to which it is assigned. Moreover, each facility may be assigned at most L vertices. This problem is known to be NP-hard. We give polynomial time approximation algorithms for two different versions of this problem that achieve approximation factors of 5 and 6. We also study some generalizations of this problem.