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The $k$-center problem is a classic facility location problem, where given an edge-weighted graph $G = (V,E)$ one is to find a subset of $k$ vertices $S$, such that each vertex in $V$ is "close" to some vertex in $S$. The approximation status of this basic problem is well understood, as a simple 2-approximation algorithm is known to be tight. Consequently different extensions were studied. In the capacitated version of the problem each vertex is assigned a capacity, which is a strict upper bound on the number of clients a facility can serve, when located at this vertex. A constant factor approximation for the capacitated $k$-center was obtained last year by Cygan, Hajiaghayi and Khuller [FOCS'12], which was recently improved to a 9-approximation by An, Bhaskara and Svensson [arXiv'13]. In a different generalization of the problem some clients (denoted as outliers) may be disregarded. Here we are additionally given an integer $p$ and the goal is to serve exactly $p$ clients, which the algorithm is free to choose. In 2001 Charikar et al. [SODA'01] presented a 3-approximation for the $k$-center problem with outliers. In this paper we consider a common generalization of the two extensi

Author

Kociumaka, Tomasz; Cygan, Marek

Published

2014

Language

EN