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 Approximation algorithms for the  priority facility location problem with submodular penalties

WANG Ying1, WANG Fengmin2, XU Dachuan2,*, XU Wenqing2,3   

  1. 1. Department of Science, Taiyuan Institute of Technology, Taiyuan 030008,  China; 2. College of Applied Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China; 3. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, California State University, Long Beach, CA 90840, USA
  • Received:2014-12-01 Online:2015-06-15 Published:2015-06-15

Abstract:

In this paper, we study priority facility location problem with submodular penalties where each client has a level-of-service requirement. An open facility must satisfy the requirement of the clients served by it, and there is a submodular penalty cost corresponding with the unserved clients. The objective is to minimize the sum of the opening cost, the connection cost and the submodular penalty cost. We present the integer program, the linear programming relaxation and the dual program for the problem. Using the primal-dual and greedy augmentation techniques, we then propose two approximation algorithms and obtain the approximation ratios of 3 and 2.375 respectively.

Key words: submodular penalties, priority facility location, primal-dual, greedy augmentation, approximation algorithm