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Online minimum latency problem with edge uncertainty

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  • Zhang, Huili
  • Tong, Weitian
  • Lin, Guohui
  • Xu, Yinfeng

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Given a tour in a metric space, the latency of the vertex v is the distance traveled along the tour starting from the root and arriving at v for the first time. The minimum latency problem (MLP) is to find a tour visiting all given vertices such that the total latency of these vertices is minimized. We consider an online variant in traffic networks, where as many as ℓ edges are to be blocked during the traversal, for a non-negative integer ℓ. We first prove a lower bound on the competitive ratio for any online algorithm and then propose an online algorithm GoodTreeTraversal, which is demonstrated to be near optimal if there is a good k-tree for every k in the range from 2 to n and the number of blockages is large enough. We also present a polynomial time heuristic algorithm called Detour, which is much faster than GoodTreeTraversal. The numerical experiments demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of our two algorithms.

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  • Zhang, Huili & Tong, Weitian & Lin, Guohui & Xu, Yinfeng, 2019. "Online minimum latency problem with edge uncertainty," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 273(2), pages 418-429.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ejores:v:273:y:2019:i:2:p:418-429
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2018.08.017
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