An Improved Algorithm for Open Online Dial-a-Ride

Autor: Baligacs, Julia, Disser, Yann, Mosis, Nils, Weckbecker, David
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: LNCS volume 13538 (2022) 154-171
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-18367-6_8
Popis: We consider the open online dial-a-ride problem, where transportation requests appear online in a metric space and need to be served by a single server. The objective is to minimize the completion time until all requests have been served. We present a new, parameterized algorithm for this problem and prove that it attains a competitive ratio of $1 + \varphi \approx 2.618$ for some choice of its parameter, where $\varphi$ is the golden ratio. This improves the best known bounds for open online dial-a-ride both for general metric spaces as well as for the real line. We also give a lower bound of~$2.457$ for the competitive ratio of our algorithm for any parameter choice.
Databáze: arXiv