An Improved Approximation Algorithm for the Metric Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem

  • Authors:
  • Maxim Sviridenko

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 9th International IPCO Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We design a new approximation algorithm for the metric uncapacitated facility location problem. This algorithm is of LP rounding type and is based on a rounding technique developed in [5,6,7].