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WSC
2008
15 years 9 months ago
Approximate dynamic programming: Lessons from the field
Approximate dynamic programming is emerging as a powerful tool for certain classes of multistage stochastic, dynamic problems that arise in operations research. It has been applie...
Warren B. Powell
SIAMDM
1998
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15 years 6 months ago
String Noninclusion Optimization Problems
For every string inclusion relation there are two optimization problems: find a longest string included in every string of a given finite language, and find a shortest string in...
Anatoly R. Rubinov, Vadim G. Timkovsky
FOCS
2008
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Minimizing Movement in Mobile Facility Location Problems
In the mobile facility location problem, which is a variant of the classical Uncapacitated Facility Location and kMedian problems, each facility and client is assigned to a start ...
Zachary Friggstad, Mohammad R. Salavatipour
SODA
2012
ACM
297views Algorithms» more  SODA 2012»
13 years 9 months ago
Constant factor approximation algorithm for the knapsack median problem
We give a constant factor approximation algorithm for the following generalization of the k-median problem. We are given a set of clients and facilities in a metric space. Each fa...
Amit Kumar
STOC
2004
ACM
107views Algorithms» more  STOC 2004»
16 years 7 months ago
Primal-dual algorithms for deterministic inventory problems
We consider several classical models in deterministic inventory theory: the single-item lot-sizing problem, the joint replenishment problem, and the multi-stage assembly problem. ...
Retsef Levi, Robin Roundy, David B. Shmoys