2010 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Complexity of Determining the Most Vital Elements for the 1-median and 1-center Location Problems
verfasst von : Cristina Bazgan, Sonia Toubaline, Daniel Vanderpooten
Erschienen in: Combinatorial Optimization and Applications
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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We consider the
k
most vital edges (nodes) and min edge (node) blocker versions of the 1-median and 1-center location problems. Given a weighted connected graph with distances on edges and weights on nodes, the
k
most vital edges (nodes) 1-median (respectively 1-center) problem consists of finding a subset of
k
edges (nodes) whose removal from the graph leads to an optimal solution for the 1-median (respectively 1-center) problem with the largest total weighted distance (respectively maximum weighted distance). The complementary problem, min edge (node) blocker 1-median (respectively 1-center), consists of removing a subset of edges (nodes) of minimum cardinality such that an optimal solution for the 1-median (respectively 1-center) problem has a total weighted distance (respectively a maximum weighted distance) at least as large as a specified threshold. We show that
k
most vital edges 1-median and
k
most vital edges 1-center are
NP
-hard to approximate within a factor
$\frac{7}{5}-\epsilon$
and
$\frac{4}{3}-\epsilon$
respectively, for any
ε
> 0, while
k
most vital nodes 1-median and
k
most vital nodes 1-center are
NP
-hard to approximate within a factor
$\frac{3}{2}-\epsilon$
, for any
ε
> 0. We also show that the complementary versions of these four problems are
NP
-hard to approximate within a factor 1.36.