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On the Facility Location Problem in Online and Dynamic Models

Authors Xiangyu Guo, Janardhan Kulkarni, Shi Li, Jiayi Xian

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Xiangyu Guo
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, NY, USA
Janardhan Kulkarni
  • The Algorithms Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA
Shi Li
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, NY, USA
Jiayi Xian
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, NY, USA

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X. Guo, S. Li and J. Xian are partially supported by NSF grants CCF- 1717134 and CCF-1844890.

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Xiangyu Guo, Janardhan Kulkarni, Shi Li, and Jiayi Xian. On the Facility Location Problem in Online and Dynamic Models. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 176, pp. 42:1-42:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2020.42

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In this paper we study the facility location problem in the online with recourse and dynamic algorithm models. In the online with recourse model, clients arrive one by one and our algorithm needs to maintain good solutions at all time steps with only a few changes to the previously made decisions (called recourse). We show that the classic local search technique can lead to a (1+√2+ε)-competitive online algorithm for facility location with only O(log n/ε log 1/ε) amortized facility and client recourse, where n is the total number of clients arrived during the process.
We then turn to the dynamic algorithm model for the problem, where the main goal is to design fast algorithms that maintain good solutions at all time steps. We show that the result for online facility location, combined with the randomized local search technique of Charikar and Guha [Charikar and Guha, 2005], leads to a (1+√2+ε)-approximation dynamic algorithm with total update time of Õ(n²) in the incremental setting against adaptive adversaries. The approximation factor of our algorithm matches the best offline analysis of the classic local search algorithm.
Finally, we study the fully dynamic model for facility location, where clients can both arrive and depart. Our main result is an O(1)-approximation algorithm in this model with O(|F|) preprocessing time and O(nlog³ D) total update time for the HST metric spaces, where |F| is the number of potential facility locations. Using the seminal results of Bartal [Bartal, 1996] and Fakcharoenphol, Rao and Talwar [Fakcharoenphol et al., 2003], which show that any arbitrary N-point metric space can be embedded into a distribution over HSTs such that the expected distortion is at most O(log N), we obtain an O(log |F|) approximation with preprocessing time of O(|F|²log |F|) and O(nlog³ D) total update time. The approximation guarantee holds in expectation for every time step of the algorithm, and the result holds in the oblivious adversary model.

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  • Theory of computation → Facility location and clustering
  • Theory of computation → Online algorithms
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  • Facility location
  • online algorithm
  • recourse

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