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Approximation Algorithm for the Squared Metric Soft Capacitated Facility Location Problem (Extended Abstract)

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We consider the squared metric soft capacitated facility location problem (SMSCFLP), which includes both the squared metric facility location problem (SMFLP) and the soft capacitated facility location problem (SCFLP) as special cases. As our main contribution, we propose a primal-dual based 10-approximation algorithm for the SMSCFLP. Our work also extends the applicability of the primal-dual technique.

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Acknowledgements

The second author is supported by Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11531014). The third author is supported by Natural Science Foundation of China grant (No. 11901558) and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation funded project (No. 2018M643233). The fourth author is supported by Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11871081).

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  1. Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, People’s Republic of China

    Lu Han

  2. Department of Operations Research and Scientific Computing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, People’s Republic of China

    Dachuan Xu

  3. Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 518055, People’s Republic of China

    Yicheng Xu

  4. School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan, 250101, People’s Republic of China

    Dongmei Zhang

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  1. University of Calabria, Rende, Italy

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  2. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

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Han, L., Xu, D., Xu, Y., Zhang, D. (2019). Approximation Algorithm for the Squared Metric Soft Capacitated Facility Location Problem (Extended Abstract). In: Tagarelli, A., Tong, H. (eds) Computational Data and Social Networks. CSoNet 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11917. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34980-6_8

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