Improved approximation algorithms for the robust fault-tolerant facility location problem

Information Processing Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 361-364

  Li, Yu ^a   Xu, Dachuan ^b   Du, Donglei ^c   Xiu, Naihua ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Approximation algorithm; Facility location; Fault tolerance

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION RATIOS; AUXILIARY FACILITIES; FACILITY LOCATION; FACILITY LOCATION PROBLEM; FAULT-TOLERANT; LP-ROUNDING; SHIPPING COST;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FAULT TOLERANCE;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84862810870     PISSN: 00200190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipl.2012.02.004     Document Type: Article

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