Paths, Trees, and Minimum Latency Tours

  • Authors:
  • Kamalika Chaudhuri;Brighten Godfrey;Satish Rao;Kunal Talwar

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • FOCS '03 Proceedings of the 44th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We give improved approximation algorithms for a variety of latency minimization problems. In particular, we give a 3.591-approximation to the minimum latency problem, improving on previous algorithms by a multiplicative factor of 2. Our techniques also give similar improvements for related problems like k-traveling repairmen and its multiple depot variant. We also observe that standard techniques can be used to speed up the previous and this algorithm by a factor of \bar O(n).