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Approximation Algorithms for Mixed, Windy, and Capacitated Arc Routing Problems

Authors René van Bevern, Christian Komusiewicz, Manuel Sorge

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  • vehicle routing
  • transportation
  • Rural Postman
  • Chinese Postman
  • NP- hard problem
  • parameterized algorithm
  • combinatorial optimization

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Abstract

We show that any alpha(n)-approximation algorithm for the n-vertex metric asymmetric Traveling Salesperson problem yields O(alpha(C))-approximation algorithms for various mixed, windy, and capacitated arc routing problems. Herein, C is the number of weakly-connected components in the subgraph induced by the positive-demand arcs, a number that can be expected to be small in applications. In conjunction with known results, we derive constant-factor approximations if C is in O(log n) and O(log(C)/log(log(C)))-approximations in general.

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René van Bevern, Christian Komusiewicz, and Manuel Sorge. Approximation Algorithms for Mixed, Windy, and Capacitated Arc Routing Problems. In 15th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2015). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 48, pp. 130-143, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2015.130

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René van Bevern
Christian Komusiewicz
Manuel Sorge

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