Improved Exact Algorithm for the Capacitated Facility Location Problem on a Line Graph

Abstract

In the Capacitated Facility Location Problem (CFLP) the goal is to optimally place facilities at the vertices of a transportation network graph in order to minimize the total facility opening and transportation costs while considering additional restrictions on the facility capacities. The general problem is NP-hard. In this paper we study a special case of the CFLP, where the input transportation network graph is a line graph. We show how to improve the running-time of the best known pseudopolynomial-time algorithm for the CFLP on a line graph from [Mirchandani et al., 1996] by one order.