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Euler is Standing in Line

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  • In this paper we study algorithms for ``Dial-a-Ride'' transportation problems. In the basic version of the problem we are given transportation jobs between the vertices of a graph and the goal is to find a shortest transportation that serves all the jobs. This problem is known to be NP-hard even on trees. We consider the extension when precedence relations between the jobs with the same source are given. Our results include a polynomial time algorithm on paths and an approximation algorithm on general graphs with a performance of~$9/4$. For trees we improve the performance to~$5/3$.

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Author:Dietrich Hauptmeier, Sven Krumke, Jörg Rambau, Hans-Christoph Wirth.
Document Type:ZIB-Report
Tag:Eulerian Cycle; NP-completeness; elevator system; polynomial-time approximation algorithms; stacker-crane problem; vehicle routing
MSC-Classification:68-XX COMPUTER SCIENCE (For papers involving machine computations and programs in a specific mathematical area, see Section -04 in that area) / 68Qxx Theory of computing / 68Q10 Modes of computation (nondeterministic, parallel, interactive, probabilistic, etc.) [See also 68Q85]
68-XX COMPUTER SCIENCE (For papers involving machine computations and programs in a specific mathematical area, see Section -04 in that area) / 68Qxx Theory of computing / 68Q25 Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity [See also 68W40]
Date of first Publication:1999/03/03
Series (Serial Number):ZIB-Report (SC-99-06)
ZIB-Reportnumber:SC-99-06
Published in:Appeared in: Discrete Appl. Math. 113 (2001) 87-107. A prel. vers. appeared in: Proc. of the 25nd Intern. Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG'99), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1665, Springer (1999) 42-54
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