Soft Capacitated Two-Stage Stochastic Facility Location Problem
摘要
The two-stage stochastic facility location problem (SFL) has been extensively studied in the literature. However, as a crucial and worthwhile direction of SFL, the capacity variant of the SFL remains relatively underexplored. In this work, we give the first constant 3.7052-approximation ratio for the soft capacitated two-stage stochastic facility location problem (SCSFL). Initially, we present a 6-approximation algorithm for the SCSFL by utilizing the 3-approximation algorithm for the SFL. Subsequently, we enhance this algorithm through greedy improvement and cost scaling, achieving a significant reduction in the approximation ratio to 3.7052.