随机容错设施布局问题的近似算法

在确定性的容错设施布局问题中, 给定顾客的集合和地址的集合. 在每个地址上可以开设任意数目的不同设施. 每个顾客j有连接需求r_j. 允许将顾客j连到同一地址的不同设施上. 目标是开设一些设施并将每个顾客j连到r_j个不同的设施上, 使得总开设费用和连接费用最小. 研究两阶段随机容错设施布局问题(SFTFP), 顾客的集合事先不知道, 但是具有有限多个场景并知道其概率分布. 每个场景指定需要服务的顾客的子集. 并且每个设施有两种类型的开设费用. 在第一阶段根据顾客的随机信息确定性地开设一些设施, 在第二阶段根据顾客的真实信息再增加开设一些设施．给出随机容错布局问题的线性整数规划和基于线性规划舍入的5-近似算法.     

带惩罚的容错设施布局问题的近似算法

在带惩罚的容错设施布局问题中, 给定顾客集合、地址集合、以及每个顾客和各个地址之间的连接费用, 这里假设连接费用是可度量的. 每位顾客有各自的服务需求, 每个地址可以开设任意多个设施, 顾客可以被安排连接到某些地址的一些开设的设施上以满足其需求, 也可以被拒绝, 但这时要支付拒绝该顾客所带来的惩罚费用. 目标是确定哪些顾客的服务需求被拒绝并开设一些设施, 将未被拒绝的顾客连接到不同的开设设施上, 使得开设费用、连接费用和惩罚费用总和最小. 给出了带惩罚的容错设施布局问题的线性整数规划及其对偶规划, 进一步, 给出了基于其线性规划和对偶规划舍入的4-近似算法.     

带有异常点的平方度量设施选址问题

传统的设施选址问题一般假设所有顾客都被服务,考虑到异常点的存在不仅会增加总费用(设施的开设费用与连接费用之和),也会影响到对其他顾客的服务质量.研究异常点在最终方案中允许不被服务的情况,称之为带有异常点的平方度量设施选址问题.该问题是无容量设施选址问题的推广.问题可描述如下:给定设施集合、顾客集,以及设施开设费用和顾客...     

带次模惩罚的优先设施选址问题的近似算法

研究带次模惩罚的优先设施选址问题, 每个顾客都有一定的服务水平要求, 开设的设施只有满足了顾客的服务水平要求, 才能为顾客提供服务, 没被服务的顾客对应一定的次模惩罚费用. 目标是使得开设费用、连接费用与次模惩罚费用之和最小. 给出该问题的整数规划、 线性规划松弛及其对偶规划. 基于原始对偶和贪婪增广技巧, 给出该问题的两个近似算法, 得到的近似比分别为3和2.375.     

平方度量的k层设施选址问题的近似算法

本文中,我们研究平方度量的k层设施选址问题,该问题中设施分为k层,每个顾客都要连接到位于不同层上的k个设施,顾客与设施以及设施与设施之间的距离是平方度量的.目标是使得开设费用与连接费用之和最小.基于线性规划舍入技巧,我们给出了9-近似算法.进一步,我们研究了平方度量的k层软容量设施选址问题,并给出了线性规划舍入12.2216-近似算法.     

鲁棒动态设施选址问题的近似算法

设施选址问题是组合优化中重要问题之一。动态设施选址问题是传统设施选址问题的推广,其中度量空间中设施的开设费用和顾客的需求均随着时间的变化而变化。更多地,经典设施选址问题假设所有的顾客都需要被服务。在这个模型假设下,所有的顾客都需要服务。但事实上,有时为服务距离较远的顾客,需要单独开设设施,导致了资源的浪费。因此,在模型设置中,可以允许一些固定数目的顾客不被服务 (带异常点的设施选址问题),此外也可以通过支付一些顾客的惩罚费用以达到不服务的目的 (带惩罚的设施选址问题)。本文将综合以上两种鲁棒设置考虑同时带有异常点和惩罚的动态设施选址问题,通过原始-对偶框架得到近似比为3的近似算法。     

带次模惩罚和随机需求的设施选址问题

考虑带次模惩罚和随机需求的设施选址问题,目的是开设设施集合的一个子集,把客户连接到开设的设施上并对没有连接的客户进行惩罚,使得开设费用、连接费用、库存费用、管理费用和惩罚费用之和达到最小. 根据该问题的特殊结构,给出原始对偶3-近似算法. 在算法的第一步,构造了一组对偶可行解;在第二步中构造了对应的一组原始整数可行解,这组原始整数可行解给出了最后开设的设施集合和被惩罚的客户集合. 最后,证明了算法在多项式时间内可以完成,并且算法所给的整数解不会超过最优解的3倍.     

两阶段选址优化问题研究

本文主要考虑如下实际问题:假设选址决策者需要建设p个设施,但是由于资金等等的影响,实际建设时会被要求先建设q个设施,其次再建设p-q个设施(设p>q),同时要求,在建设p-q个设施的时候,已经建设好的q个设施不被删除。本文建立了一个两阶段优化问题,问题的输出是两个待修建的设施的集合Fq,Fp,|Fp|=p,|Fq|=q,且Fq是Fp的子集,问题的目标是最小化这两个设施集合的费用同对应的最优费用的比值的最大值。本文给出一个近似比为9的近似算法,并对一些特殊的情况进行了讨论。所得结论对实际的选址决策具有理论意义,同时也完善已有相关研究结果。     

带惩罚的相同容量k-均值问题的局部搜索算法

经典$k$-均值问题是一类应用广泛的聚类问题,它是指给定$\mathbb{R}^d$中观测点集合$D$和整数$k$,目的是在空间中寻找$k$个点作为中心集合$S$,使得集合$D$中的每个观测点到$S$中离它最近的中心的距离平方求和最小。这是个NP-难问题。经典$k$-均值问题有很多推广,本文研究的带惩罚的相同容量$k$-均值问题就是其中之一。与经典$k$-均值问题相比,惩罚性质是指每个观测点都给定惩罚费用,当某个观测点到最近中心的距离大于惩罚费用时,其对目标函数的贡献就用该观测点的惩罚费用来代替最近的距离的平方,相同容量约束要求每个中心至多连接$U$个观测点。针对这种问题,我们设计了局部搜索算法,该算法在至多选取$（3+\alpha）k$个中心的情况下,可以达到$\beta$-近似,其中,参数$\alpha>34$,$\beta>\frac{\alpha+34}{\alpha-34}$。     

带惩罚的相同容量k-均值问题的局部搜索算法

经典$k$-均值问题是一类应用广泛的聚类问题,它是指给定$\mathbb{R}^d$中观测点集合$D$和整数$k$,目的是在空间中寻找$k$个点作为中心集合$S$,使得集合$D$中的每个观测点到$S$中离它最近的中心的距离平方求和最小。这是个NP-难问题。经典$k$-均值问题有很多推广,本文研究的带惩罚的相同容量$k$-均值问题就是其中之一。与经典$k$-均值问题相比,惩罚性质是指每个观测点都给定惩罚费用,当某个观测点到最近中心的距离大于惩罚费用时,其对目标函数的贡献就用该观测点的惩罚费用来代替最近的距离的平方,相同容量约束要求每个中心至多连接$U$个观测点。针对这种问题,我们设计了局部搜索算法,该算法在至多选取$（3+\alpha）k$个中心的情况下,可以达到$\beta$-近似,其中,参数$\alpha>34$,$\beta>\frac{\alpha+34}{\alpha-34}$。     

Approximating connected facility location with buy-at-bulk edge costs via random sampling

In the connected facility location problem with buy-at-bulk edge costs we are given a set of clients with positive demands and a set of potential facilities with opening costs in an undirected graph with edge lengths obeying the triangle inequality. Moreover, we are given a set of access cable types, each with a cost per unit length and a capacity such that the cost per capacity decreases from small to large cables, and a core cable type of infinite capacity. The task is to open some facilities and to connect them by a Steiner tree using core cables, and to build a forest network using access cables such that the edge capacities suffice to simultaneously route all client demands unsplit to the open facilities. The objective is to minimize the total cost of opening facilities, building the core Steiner tree, and installing the access cables. In this paper, we devise a constant-factor approximation algorithm for this problem based on a random sampling technique.     

An Iterated Local Search for the Budget Constrained Generalized Maximal Covering Location Problem

Capacitated covering models aim at covering the maximum amount of customers’ demand using a set of capacitated facilities. Based on the assumptions made in such models, there is a unique scenario to open a facility in which each facility has a pre-specified capacity and an operating budget. In this paper, we propose a generalization of the maximal covering location problem, in which facilities have different scenarios for being constructed. Essentially, based on the budget invested to construct a given facility, it can provide different service levels to the surrounded customers. Having a limited budget to open the facilities, the goal is locating a subset of facilities with the optimal opening scenario, in order to maximize the total covered demand and subject to the service level constraint. Integer linear programming formulations are proposed and tested using ILOG CPLEX. An iterated local search algorithm is also developed to solve the introduced problem.     

Dynamic evolution of economically preferred facilities

In a sustained development scenario, it is often the case that an investment is to be made over time in facilities that generate benefits. The benefits result from joint synergies between the facilities expressed as positive utilities specific to some subsets of facilities. As incremental budgets to finance fixed facility costs become available over time, additional facilities can be opened. The question is which facilities should be opened in order to guarantee that the overall benefit return over time is on the highest possible trajectory. This problem is common in situations such as ramping up a communication or transportation network where the facilities are hubs or service stations, or when introducing new technologies such as alternative fuels for cars and the facilities are fueling stations, or when expanding the production capacity with new machines, or when facilities are functions in a developing organization that is forced to make choices of where to invest limited funding.     

IP modeling of the survivable hop constrained connected facility location problem

We consider a generalized version of the rooted connected facility location problem which occurs in planning of telecommunication networks with both survivability and hop-length constraints. Given a set of client nodes, a set of potential facility nodes including one predetermined root facility, a set of optional Steiner nodes, and the set of the potential connections among these nodes, that task is to decide which facilities to open, how to assign the clients to the open facilities, and how to interconnect the open facilities in such a way, that the resulting network contains at least λ edge-disjoint paths, each containing at most H edges, between the root and each open facility and that the total cost for opening facilities and installing connections is minimal. We study two IP models for this problem and present a branch-and-cut algorithm based on Benders decomposition for finding its solution. Finally, we report computational results.