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WSC
2008
15 years 10 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 7 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 8 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 10 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