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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Between a rock and a hard place: the two-to-one assignment problem |
Author: | Goossens, D. Polyakovskiy, S. Spieksma, F. Woeginger, G. |
Citation: | Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, 2012; 76(2):223-237 |
Publisher: | Springer Verlag |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
ISSN: | 1432-5217 1432-5217 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Dries Goossens, Sergey Polyakovskiy, Frits C.R. Spieksma and Gerhard J. Woeginger |
Abstract: | We describe the two-to-one assignment problem, a problem in between the axial three-index assignment problem and the three-dimensional matching problem, having applications in various domains. For the (relevant) case of decomposable costs satisfying the triangle inequality we provide, on the positive side, two constant factor approximation algorithms. These algorithms involve solving minimum weight matching problems and transportation problems, leading to a 2-approximation, and a 3/2-approximation. Moreover, we further show that the best of these two solutions is a 4/3 -approximation for our problem. On the negative side, we show that the existence of a polynomial time approximation scheme for our problem would imply P=NP. Finally, we report on some computational experiments showing the performance of the described heuristics. |
Keywords: | Assignment problem; matching problem; efficient algorithm; approximation |
Rights: | © Springer-Verlag 2012 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s00186-012-0397-2 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00186-012-0397-2 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 7 Computer Science publications |
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