Preemptive and Non-Preemptive Generalized Min Sum Set Cover

Authors Sungjin Im, Maxim Sviridenko, Ruben van der Zwaan



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Sungjin Im
Maxim Sviridenko
Ruben van der Zwaan

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Sungjin Im, Maxim Sviridenko, and Ruben van der Zwaan. Preemptive and Non-Preemptive Generalized Min Sum Set Cover. In 29th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2012). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 14, pp. 465-476, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2012)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2012.465

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In the (non-preemptive) Generalized Min Sum Set Cover Problem, we are given n ground elements and a collection of sets S = {S_1, S_2, ..., S_m} where each set S_i in 2^{[n]} has a positive requirement k(S_i) that has to be fulfilled. We would like to order all elements to minimize the total (weighted) cover time of all sets. The cover time of a set S_i is defined as the first index j in the ordering such that the first j elements in the ordering contain k(S_i) elements in S_i. This problem was introduced by [Azar, Gamzu and Yin, 2009] with interesting motivations in web page ranking and broadcast scheduling. For this problem, constant approximations are known [Bansal, Gupta and Krishnaswamy, 2010][Skutella and Williamson, 2011]. We study the version where preemption is allowed. The difference is that elements can be fractionally scheduled and a set S is covered in the moment when k(S) amount of elements in S are scheduled. We give a 2-approximation for this preemptive problem. Our linear programming and analysis are completely different from [Bansal, Gupta and Krishnaswamy, 2010][Skutella and Williamson, 2011]. We also show that any preemptive solution can be transformed into a non-preemptive one by losing a factor of 6.2 in the objective function. As a byproduct, we obtain an improved 12.4-approximation for the non-preemptive problem.
Keywords
  • Set Cover
  • Approximation
  • Preemption
  • Latency
  • Average cover time

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